move files using xargs

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,

I have many files like below in my currect dir

test1.me

test3.me

I wanted them to rename without .me extention

I tried below

find . -name "*.me" | xargs -i mv {} `echo {} | sed 's/\.me//'`

It thorws error that
cant mv ./test1.me to ./test1.me as they are identical

Not sure why `echo {}|sed 's/\.me//'` is not working , or may be xargs is looking for the place holder ({})
Please help

Thanks
Sunny

2

Try:

for i in *.me; do
  mv "$i" "${i%.me}"
done
3

worked,

but how to do it with xargs

xargs -i mv {} {%.me} ?? ,

it dint work

4 
find . -name "*.me" | sed "p;s/\.me$//" | xargs -n2 mv

(if your filenames don't have spaces)

find . -name "*.doc" | sed 's/.*/"&"/;p;s/\.doc//' | xargs -L2 mv

(if they do)

5

Or if you want to rename every .me in every sub directory too:

find . -name "*.me" | 
while read i; do 
  mv "$i" "${i%.me}"
done
6

It is easy if you have GNU Parallel installed:

find . -name "*.me" | parallel mv {} {.}

7

If we're listing third-party nonstandard app solutions now, it's also easy with mmv:

mmv "*.me" "#1"