How to efficiently rename all files/directories with same name?

Question

I'm trying to rename a few common files/directories in my music collection. As of now, my music library is organized this way:

Music
    Artist
        Album
            Song
            Song
            Song
            .Cover.jpg
            .Scans

I would like to change the .Cover.jpg and .Scans to something different, like:

Music
    Artist
        Album
            Song
            Song
            Song
            Cover.jpg
            Artwork

However, I can't find a good way to rename all of these files and directories via bash. How could I make this work so that I won't have to rename every single file manually?

Also, in case I sometime in the future change my mind about how I have things named, how can I change the .Scans directory to simply Scans in every directory under Music?

Probably should have made that more obvious...sorry about that! — Ryan McClure, Dec 22 '14 at 06:42

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 22 '14 at 06:43

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These commands should work:

find -name .Cover.jpg -execdir mv '{}' Cover.jpg ';'
find -name .Scans -execdir mv '{}' Artwork ';'

Run them from Music dir.

answered Dec 22 '14 at 06:43

Alexey Ten

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Absolutely excellent! This did EXACTLY what I needed it to do. I'm still a bit of a CL novice, so it was great to learn about find today. Thank you! – Ryan McClure Dec 22 '14 at 06:51

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 22 '14 at 06:43

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Try the free Irfanview. It has a good batch rename feature with lots of options. Located under File.

answered Dec 22 '14 at 06:43

Philipp

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How to efficiently rename all files/directories with same name?

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