Ik I can use grep to find filenames with specific characters and then print that to a list but idk how to utilize said list to rename. I found another solution which’s using mv but couldn’t figure out how to make it work w subdirectories. I think using both grep and mv in unison’s the answer just idk how to do it. plz halp
My guess is that he was doing a “find . | grep filename”, which is a way to output a list of all occurrences within that directory structure, hence why they mentioned grep.
exactly what I did. I also didn’t know the existence of
rename. how would I go abt using it alongsidefind?edit: wrong cmd mentioned
I’ve never really used rename. It has different features compared to mv, though. rename has more options for batch renaming such as regular expression support, though the behavior varies by distro.