Rename Files and Directories (Add Prefix)

Thanks to Peter van der Heijden, here's one that'll work for filenames with spaces in them:

for f in * ; do mv -- "$f" "PRE_$f" ; done

("--" is needed to succeed with files that begin with dashes, whose names would otherwise be interpreted as switches for the mv command)

linux perl shell

$ rename 's/^/PRE_/' *

There are no problems with metacharacters or whitespace in filenames.

linux perl shell

For adding prefix or suffix for files(directories), you could use the simple and powerful way by xargs:

ls | xargs -I {} mv {} PRE_{}ls | xargs -I {} mv {} {}_SUF

It is using the paramerter-replacing option of xargs: -I. And you can get more detail from the man page.

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