Find and rename long file names (html)

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi Guys,

I need a help. I have 1130 zip files. Each one of them has files including 1 html file with long file name (includes special charactors, Alphabetic and numbers).

I have copied all 1130 zip files to my linux system and extracted using below command.

Find . -name "*.zip" -exec unzip {} \;

Now, I have got 1130 folders, each of them has files including 1 html files with long name as I told earlier.

All I want now, I want to find all html files and rename it in the same folder (i.e abc.html), because since It's html files I don't want to move this files to different folder.

I tried this command going to each of the folder. It works.

mv [file_name.html] abc.html

or

rename [A-z,0-9]*.html abc.html *.html

but how long this will take to do it for 1130 folder :rolleyes:.

Please I need a script to do all at once.

Thanks,
Rajmani

2

I would suggest

  1. do a find for all the html files from the directory where the files will be there
  2. store the o/p in a file
  3. in a shell script, read the file line by line with a variable counter set to increment for each line read
  4. mv $readline $var.html

cheers,
Devaraj Takhellambam

3

Hi Devaraj,

Thanks for your reply.

Here is the example of "html" file which each one of the folder contains;

UJResults.aspx?sToDay=0&sToMonth=10&sToYear=2002&sCivilCriminal=Both&sFromDay=0&sFromMonth=10&sFromYear=2002&sJudgementNumber=&iHearingType=&iSubject=&sOffenceType=&sJudge=&sDivision=&iCourtID=&sParties=&Exact=False.1.html

I don't know, the idea works for this long file name.

I am beginner to the script, If you give me more input. It would be great.

Thanks for your help.

4

do something like

#!/bin/ksh
mkdir htmlfiles
find . -name "*.html" -print 2>/dev/null 1>findlist

i=1
while read file
do
mv $file htmlfiles/$i.html
i=`expr $i + 1`
done < findlist
echo $i

cheers,
Devaraj

5

It doesn't work.

mv: target `htmlfiles/1.html' is not a directory
mv: target `htmlfiles/2.html' is not a directory
mv: target `htmlfiles/3.html' is not a directory

However "htmlfiles" directory created is part of the script.

I really don't want to move these files to "htmlfiles" directory, since this html has supporting image files in the directory. I have just wanted to find and rename in the same directory.

is there anythink like this to rename and save in the directory.

 
find . -name "*.html" |xargs rename .html abc.html *.html
6

Are you ok giving the same name to all these files?

If so, I believe you could just do a

find . -type f -name "*.html" -exec mv {} abc.html \;

or

find . -type f -name "*.html" | xargs mv abc.html
7

Hi Devaraj,

Finaly I have done with it. Thanks for your help.

Here is the actual script I wanted.

#!/bin/sh
find . -name ".zip" -exec unzip {} \;
find . -name ".zip" -exec rm {} \;
for file in ;
do
if [ -d $file ]; then
cd $file; rename [A-Z,a-z,0-9,_,=,].html abc.html *.html
cd ..
mv $file htmlfile
fi
done

Regards,
Rajmani

8

Glad to know that it is working for you now :slight_smile: