How to append folder name to files

[mohittomar13]

I'v been looking for a solution to this problem from very long. I try to search through stackoverflow, and other resources but don't understand the solutions given (which are mostly shell scripts) and after searching for some time I decide to check it later, and it's been pending form so long. But today I thought to post this thread.

Okay so, I have a folder structure given below.



What I want to do is append "2008-dec" to "MCS-021.pdf" so it should become "2008-dec_MCS-021.pdf" and so on for the rest of the file. Then this should repeat for the next folder "2008-jun"

I have these files in all the folders the name is same only the folder name is different.

Thanks..:-)

[jglen490]

There is no easy solution, even if you do shell scripting or programming at a high level. There is a large risk for error with so many of the same file names.

Of course the directory is part of each file's metadata - the path is always available when viewing or updating. If you frequently enter into these files, you could rename them as you go into each. Other than that, I would just be repeating what you have already found. Sorry!

[Don B. Cilly]

Well, you won't be able to to that without using scripts, will you :·)
Now, something like

DIRS=`ls -l $MYDIR | egrep '^d' | awk '{print $9}'`
for DIR in $DIRS
do
echo  ${DIR}
done

should list all the directories in your current one.
So you could pass them to the script as variables and append them (or prepend them, as your case seems to be) to the filenames.

Then recursively
cd $DIR , append or prepend $DIR to all files, and cd ..

Alternatively,

for file in MCS*
do
stat -c %y "$file"
done

will extract the date from the files, you could choose the part of the string to use and prepend that.

Obviously, the likelihood of errors while testing this kind of thing is high, so you should copy the stuff to a "test" area and experiment there.
For example, '{print $9}' returns the directory name on my system, it may return something else on yours.

If you'd like to go for it, I can maybe cook up a script to try, or you can ask in stackexchange-like places... which is probably best :·)

[claydoh]

We forget the powerful and cool GUI tool with the old KDE 3 era let's-tack-a-K-on-every-app name: Krename

it will do exactly this






You do need to do some tweaking to make it fit your needs.
The '$' represents the original file name, so you can move that to the end of you like, and insert a dash as I have, or spaces, underscores, whatever you like.

[Don B. Cilly]

Well, you won't be able to to that without using scripts, will you :·)

Well, there you go, it looks like you will
Very nice utility that.

Still,

Obviously, the likelihood of errors while testing this kind of thing is high, so you should copy the stuff to a "test" area and experiment there.

is probably still valid.
Or the results may be in the neighbourhood of

[vinnywright]

Krename ,,,,yes I remember that now .

it seams that once installed (sudo apt install krename) it is integrated into both Dolphin and Krusader (if you happen to have that) in Dolphin it will be found in rite click>actions .

if one say "ctrl+a" a bunch of files then "right click>actions>rename with krename" the hole set will be loaded in the Krename window that will open.

VINNY

[mohittomar13]

Well, there you go, it looks like you will
Very nice utility that.

Still,

is probably still valid.
Or the results may be in the neighbourhood of
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I found "krename" interesting. Let me try it out for a couple of days if I face any problem I may reply again. Like always I got the solution to a problem which is difficult to tackle in other commercial OS. Thanks everyone.