[Leaplist] howto change the name of every file in a directory

[Gray Frost]

Richard,
I like this method. Short and simple.  Can you break it down for me?

I think it is saying:
For everything in this directory move the variable named file called $x to a
new file name "dune_3 + $x" to give you dune_3$x.  This actually places the
"dune_3" in the front of every file.

Is this a form of SED  or AWK?  Or is it just that simple where it just adds
a "dune_3" to each file name in the for loop?

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Richard F. Ostrow Jr.
<rich at warfaresdl.com>wrote:

> write this into your console:
>
> cd /path/to/my/dune/mp3s
> for x in * ; do
> mv $x \[dune_3\]_$x
> done
>
> and that's it
> <quote who="Mr. Brunkow">
> > to add something to the front of the name?
> >
> > I have the audio MP3 collection of the Dune line of books.  I want to
> > burn a MP3 CD, but dune, dune messiah are in order by alphabetics, but
> > children of dune is not.  i want to add [dune_3]_ to the front of all of
> > the children of dune mp3 files.
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> > Raymond L. Brunkow
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