Question

I rename few files (1234.xml, 9876.xml, 2345.xml etc) with .xml extension with the following code :

 for i in *.xml  
 do  
 mv $i $i.ab  
 done

it becomes 1234.xml.ab, 9876.xml.ab, 2345.xml.ab…etc

Now, I want to rename it to 1234.xml.SD, 9876.xml.SD, 2345.xml.SD…etc.

These are 100 files.

How can this be achieved with the help of code ? Please advise.

Answer 1

If you are using bash you can do:

for f in *.xml.ab; do
    mv "$f" "${f%.ab}.SD"
done

or just use the rename command as:

rename 's/ab$/SD/' *.xml.ab