CHSUF

chsuf − changes the suffix of files

chsuf [  OPTION  ]... --append=suffix file ...

chsuf [  OPTION  ]... --delete[=suffix] file ...

chsuf [  OPTION  ]... [ --from=oldsuffix ] --to=newsuffix file ...

chsuf [ --version ]

chsuf changes the suffix of files and/or directories. It also can be used to add or remove a suffix to/from a list of files.

chsuf might be useful to change DOS-style three character extensions to more readable variations (eg htm to html), or to add an extension to filenames for later use on platforms which depend on them.

--append=suffix

Add the suffix given by --append to the name of all given files. --from, --to and --delete will be ignored when this option is used.

--delete[ =suffix ]

Delete the specified suffix from the name of all given files. When no suffix is, the shortest arbitrary suffix (if any) will be deleted.

−i, −−interactive

Prompt whether or not to overwrite existing regular destination files.

−r, −−recursive

Recursively enter directories to change suffixes.

−d, −−rename-dirs

Modify directory names as well as file names.

−v, −−verbose

Be verbose and print every filename changed.

−V, −−version

Show the release version of chsuf. All other options will be ignored.

--from=oldsuffix

In conjuction with --to specifies the suffix to be changed, omitting period. Files with other suffixes will not be renamed. When --append or --delete is used this will be ignored.

--to=newsuffix

This is the suffix to change to, omitting the period. When no suffix is given by using --from, the shortest arbitrary suffix (if any) will be changed. When --append or --delete is used this will be ignored.

You may have some HTML-files from different sources; some ending .htm, some ending .html. As a GNU/Linux/Unix (whatever) user you want to only use .html so you can type:

    chsuf --from="htm" --to="html" *

If you also want to change the files in subdirectories, you would use:

    chsuf -r --from="htm" --to="html" *

Finally, if you would like to be told what’s being done add −v or --verbose:

    chsuf -rv --from="htm" --to="html" *

Let’s say you want to export a bunch of text files to a system which expects the names of textfiles to end with .txt. To do this you can use:

    chsuf -v --append="txt" texts/*

In case you have files from a lousy system which requires such extensions and you want to get rid of the annoying .txt suffixes you will type:

    chsuf -v --delete="txt" texts/*

if you want to remove all the suffixes of all the files in the directory and all sub-directories use:

    chsuf -v --rename-dirs --recursive --delete *

or, for short:

    chsuf -vdr --delete *

Many, for sure! This is still a beta, you know...

A more general tool using regexps to rename files would be much more powerful but also much harder to use.

mv(1), cp(1)

Sascha Wilde <swilde@users.sourceforge.net>, Daniel Roberge <droberge@users.sourceforge.net>

To Phil Williams <phil@subbacultcha.demon.co.uk> for beta-testing, ideas and suggestions.