I have a bunch of files with names like

... (Karton 1).jpeg

and would like to rename them recursively to:

... (brauner Karton).jpeg

I tried the following commands, which didn't work:

rename -v 's/Karton 1/brauner Karton/g' * rename -v 's/Karton 1/brauner Karton/g' *.jpeg

According to a lot of examples this shouldn't be that hard. What am I doing wrong?

Aditional info: "Karton 1" would be "[B/b]ox 1" in English.

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1 Answer

There are several versions of the rename command. Use rename --version to determine which you have, they use different syntax.

$ rename --version /usr/bin/rename using File::Rename version 0.20 $ rename 's/\.jpeg$/.jpg/' * $ rename --version rename from util-linux 2.30.2 $ rename .jpeg .jpg *
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