[Solved] Renaming multiple, similar named files at a time via command line...

[MoreBloodWine]

I haven't had to do this for years, but I know it can be done.

How can I search a directory, find every file named minecraft_server.<version>.jar and rename every instance of minecraft_server.* to vanilla-* ?

Ty !

[MartinR]

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ls -1 minecraft_server.*.jar | while read fname ; do
  tname=${fname##minecraft_server.}
  tname=${tname%%.jar}
  mv $fname vanilla-$tname
done

WARNING: I haven't checked this for function and typos, so proceed with caution!

[KernelOops]

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rename "minecraft_server" "vanilla-" minecraft_server.*.jar

the above will rename in the current directory files like:

minecraft_server1.jar

to:

vanilla-1.jar

is that what you want or did I misunderstood?

[MoreBloodWine]

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rename "minecraft_server" "vanilla-" minecraft_server.*.jar

the above will rename in the current directory files like:

minecraft_server1.jar

to:

vanilla-1.jar

is that what you want or did I misunderstood?

I'll have to test it, but you seemed to have gotten what I was saying, basically taking every instance of minecraft_server.* and changing it to vanilla-* of the given folder where my server jars are stored. Will post back when I test it.

[MoreBloodWine]

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rename "minecraft_server" "vanilla-" minecraft_server.*.jar

the above will rename in the current directory files like:

minecraft_server1.jar

to:

vanilla-1.jar

is that what you want or did I misunderstood?

That most certainly worked, Ty !

Getting my server panel going again and it helps if I have everything like minded from pre-vanilla to vanilla and craftbukkit.

[gostal]

For what it's worth check out command line tool mmv in epel.

Cheers,
gostal