Question

I have about 100 directories all in the same parent directory that adhere to the naming convention [sitename].com. I want to rename them all [sitename].subdomain.com.

Here’s what I tried:

for FILE in `ls | sed 's/.com//' | xargs`;mv $FILE.com $FILE.subdomain.com;

But it fails miserably. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Using bash:

for i in *
do
    mv $i ${i%%.com}.subdomain.com
done

The ${i%%.com} construct returns the value of i without the ‘.com’ suffix.