Linux – rename all files by replacing last hyphen with ‘##’

Question

Please anyone.

How do I in Linux rename a bunch of files like:

abc-def-0001.xxx
acb-def-0002.xxx

to:

abc-def##0001.xxx
...

I have tried several suggestions from SO like:

rename 's/(.*)-/$1##/' *.xxx

But didn’t worked as expected in my environment.

Answer

So I ended up using:

for i in *; do mv "$i" "`echo $i | sed "s/(.*)-/1##/"`"; done

I think my version of the rename command does not support the perl expressions…

Accepted Answer

So I ended up using:for i in *; do mv "$i" "`echo $i | sed "s/(.*)-/1##/"`"; doneI think my version of the rename command does not support the perl expressions&#8230;

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