[ILUG] sed help needed (or whichever tool)

[Niall O Broin]

On 24 Jan 2012, at 17:04, Bernhard Rohrer wrote:

> I need to rename all the files in a directory by adding a suffix to them. the filenames look something like: 1326659048.M664667P14231.office.domain.net,S=2287,W=2346:2,Sa
> 
> any help appreciated. this exceeds my comand line skills.

All current Linux distros will have a rename command, though there are two variations floating around which are rather incompatible - man rename for your local variant.

The Debian variant uses a perl regex, so 

rename 's/$/.suffix/' *

would add .suffix to the end of every file


Niall