mass renaming?

[NuclearFusi0n]

How can I search a directory for all files with the extension "wv" and automatically change the extension to "flac"?
There are a few hundred files, but only ~100 or so have the extension wv and need to be renamed.

 

[igowerf]

Use the command prompt:

rename *.wv *.flac

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

Originally posted by: igowerf
Use the command prompt:

rename *.wv *.flac

I forgot, I need to do subdirs too...each wv file has its own directory.

 

[randumb]

I'd use ZTreeWin. It's like Norton Commander.

 

[igowerf]

Ah. Try one of the programs here. I'm sure it could be done via command line, but one of those programs should be more helpful.

 

[notfred]

name("C:/");

sub name{
$dir = shift @_;
opendir D, $dir;
@files = readdir D;
closedir D;
foreach $file(@files){
if(-d "$dir/$file"){
name("$dir/$file")
}
elsif($file =~ /\.wv$/){
$file =~ s//\.wv$//
rename "$dir/$file.wv", "$dir/$file.flac";
}
}

That should work.