Bash rename extension recursive

Question

I know there are a lot of things like this around, but either they don\'t work recursively or they are huge.

This is what I got:

find . -name \"*.so\         


        

Answer 1

A bash script to rename file extensions generally

  #/bin/bash
  find -L . -type f -name '*.'$1 -print0 | while IFS= read -r -d '' file; do
      echo "renaming $file to $(basename ${file%.$1}.$2)";
      mv -- "$file" "${file%.$1}.$2";
  done

Credits to aps2012.

Usage

1. Create a file e.g. called ext-rename (no extension, so you can run it like a command) in e.g. /usr/bin (make sure /usr/bin is added to your $PATH)
2. run ext-rename [ext1] [ext2] anywhere in terminal, where [ext1] is renaming from and [ext2] is renaming to. An example use would be: ext-rename so dylib, which will rename any file with extension .so to same name but with extension .dylib.