BASH shorten filenames contain screenshot

Question

I would like to replace the "Screenshot" substring with "Ss" for all the files in the current directory (if easy, add for subfolders). Currently I have this code, but needs to be completed/replaced:

#!/bin/bash
for f in *; do
echo "${f}" | cut -c1-10
done

Thank you

LianSheng · Answer 1 · 2020-12-24T14:35:52.420

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for f in *; do 
  mv $f ${f/Screenshot/Ss}
done

if need move to sub directory

mkdir -p foo
for f in *; do 
  mv $f ./foo/${f/Screenshot/Ss}
done

if your filename contain space, make sure to put the variables in double quotes.

mkdir -p foo
for f in *; do
  mv "$f" "${f/origin with space/replace name}" 
done

edited Dec 24 '20 at 14:35

answered Aug 16 '20 at 14:23

LianSheng

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It works! Thank you. I had to remove the #!/bin/bash thing and also I had to run it with ./ instead of with sh. – king_potato Aug 16 '20 at 14:29
This won't work if a filename contains whitespace. Also the variable name in `for` is wrong. – M. Nejat Aydin Aug 16 '20 at 16:54
Edited. Now it can work if filename contains whitespace. – LianSheng Aug 16 '20 at 17:24

BASH shorten filenames contain screenshot

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