How do I rename multiple user defined folder/files?
Say for Ex. I have multiple folders like krish, moorthy, ravi, robert, etc..
I want to rename all these directories as script_1 , script_2, script_3 etc. I tried below script but it doesn't produce an output:
for i in *
do
mv $* $script_'$i'
done
While executing, it says it cannot move, cannot stat *
Please help me to go through this.
This is what you want:
#! /bin/bash
s=1
for i in *
do
mv $i "script_$s"
s=$((s+1))
done
i in the loop represents the current file/directory; it's not an index, so you need a separate indexing variable, I called it s.
j=1;
for i in $(ls); do
mv $i script_$j && j=$[$j +1];
done
for i in ... returns the value as i, not the index. Here, I've just added a new variable j as the incrementing index.
