Question

I’m trying to create a for loop that goes through a directory, and renames each file in that directory.

dir2=$1

for i in $dir2
do
file=$(basename "$i")
b=${file%.*}
c=${file#"$stub"}
d=-BACKUP
e=$b$d$c
mv "$i" "$e"

I’m trying to change each file:i to become $e.

For example, if I have a directory, and there is one file in it called test.txt, the file would be changed to test-BACKUP.txt

I’m having problems in that it’s not changing the files withing the directories, it’s changing the directory itself.

Answer 1

for i in "$dir2/"*; do
    mv "$i" "${i%.*}-BACKUP.${i##*.}"
done