Renaming multiple zip files with complex name using single command in linux

Question

I have multiple zip files in a folder with names like below:

"abc.zip-20181002084936558425"

How to rename all of them with one command to get result like below:

"abc-20181002084936558425.zip"

I want the timestamp before the extension for multiple filenames. Now every file has different timestamp so renaming should consider that. Can I rename multiple files like this using single command.

Possible duplicate of [Rename multiple files in Unix](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1086502/rename-multiple-files-in-unix) — Oleksandr Kravchuk, Oct 02 '18 at 19:46
What did you try so far, and why didn't it work the way you wanted? — that other guy, Oct 02 '18 at 20:01
Your question is not about programming, it is about Linux. I suggest to ask this question on https://unix.stackexchange.com, or on https://serverfault.com. — peterh, Oct 03 '18 at 14:35

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 02 '18 at 21:01

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Providing your file are really all with the same name convention and you being in the right directory :

for i in *.zip-*; do newName=${i//.zip};mv $i $newName".zip";done

should do the trick.

answered Oct 02 '18 at 21:01

Andre Gelinas

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