A Musing Bean

Renaming file extensions in Mac OSX Terminal


I had a lot of .jpeg files that I wanted to rename to .jpg. No big deal I thought, just run “mv *.jpeg *.jpg”. Nope, that doesn't work.

According to Stack Overflow, the way to do this is: “for old in *.jpeg; do mv $old `basename $old .jpeg`.jpg; done”.

Forget that.

I ended up installing and using the ren script suggested in the same thread. And even that isn't as clean as the old DOS command.

I'm amazed that this is still a thing in 2018.

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