Renaming of files with different extensions on the same path to .found with the help of loop

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

hi ,
I have certain files at the same path with differeent extensions like .dat , .txt etc ...........i need to rename them with extension .found at the same path with the help of loop....

also the files names will be like this ;

abc_2010_c1.dat
abc_2010_c2.dat
xyz_2010_c1.txt

2

Hi,

I have just print the mv command, u can modify according your requirement.

#!/bin/sh

ls | while read  first_file
do
ext=`echo $first_file | awk -F'.' '{print $2}'`
bsnm=`basename $first_file ".$ext"`
echo "mv $first_file $bsnm.found"
done
4

@thegeek: use rename command

The rename utility is not available on all systems.

More possibilities:

for i in *
do
  mv ${i} ${i%.*}.found
done

with sed:

ls *|sed 's/\(.*\)\..*/mv & \1.found/' | sh

with awk:

ls * | awk -F\. '{system("mv " $0 " " $1 ".found')}'