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Anikom15

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From: United States

Registered: 2009-04-30

Posts: 836

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They should add this to coreutils. [prefix]

#!/bin/bash

addtofile="$1"
for file in *
do
    if [ ! -e !"$addtofile$file" ]
    then
        mv "$file" "$addtofile$file";
    fi
done

prefix adds a prefix to all the files in a directory. Use it as so:

$ prefix "prepended string"

Now I'm sure with tweaking you can get it to prefix only a single file, only certain files, etc, but I wrote this mainly for adding prefixes to large numbers of files.

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Pierre

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From: Bonn

Registered: 2004-07-05

Posts: 1,964

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Re: They should add this to coreutils. [prefix]

Or just use zsh and "zmv -W '*' 'prefix*'" (didn't test it but something similar should work)

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alterecco

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Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 152

Re: They should add this to coreutils. [prefix]

I use rename for stuff like that. Also, have a look at moreutils

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: They should add this to coreutils. [prefix]

Thanks for the contribution.

Howver, you should use a more suitable thread title, or post in a more suitable place. If you are serious about having this included in coreutils, there's no point posting it here - send it to the coreutils devs for their consideration.