Question

Hi this is a simple question but the solution eludes me at the moment..

I can find out the folder name that I want to change the name of, and I know the command to change the name of a folder is mv

so from the current directory if i go

ls ~/relevant.directory.containing.directory.name.i.want.to.change

to which i get the name of the directory is called say lorem-ipsum-v1-3

but the directory name may change in the future but it is the only directory in the directory:
~/relevant.directory.containing.directory.name.i.want.to.change

how to i programmatically change it to a specific name like correct-files

i can do it normally by just doing something like

 mv lorem-ipsum-v1-3 correct-files

but I want to start automating this so that I don’t need to keep copying and pasting the directory name….

any help would be appreciated…

Answer 1

Something like:

find  . -depth -maxdepth 1 -type d | head -n 1 | xargs -I '{}' mv '{}' correct-files

should work fine as long as only one directory should be moved.