Rename files to md5 sum + extension (BASH)

Question

I need some help with a bash script. Script needs to rename all files in a directory to its md5 sum + extension.

I have found the bash script below, but it needs to

Answer 1

This might work for you:

# mkdir temp && cd temp && touch file.{a..e}
# ls
file.a  file.b  file.c  file.d  file.e
# md5sum * | sed -e 's/\([^ ]*\) \(.*\(\..*\)\)$/mv -v \2 \1\3/' | sh
`file.a' -> `d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e.a'
`file.b' -> `d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e.b'
`file.c' -> `d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e.c'
`file.d' -> `d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e.d'
`file.e' -> `d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e.e'

Or GNU sed can do it even shorter:

# md5sum * | sed -e 's/\([^ ]*\) \(.*\(\..*\)\)$/mv -v \2 \1\3/e'

Answer 2

find . -type f -exec mv \{\} "`md5sum \{\} | sed 's/ .*//'`.`echo \{\} | awk -v FS='.' '{print $NF}'\" 

Or something like this will do :-). Actually, I'd recommend to add a filter to the filenames for the find command as it will fail on files without a . in their name.

HTH

Answer 3

I would go this route:

for F in $DIR/*.*; do
  mv "$F" "$(md5sum "$F" | cut -d' ' -f1).${F##*.}";
done

Use ${F#*.} to get everything after the first period, e.g. tar.gz instead of gz (depends on your requirements)