Renaming all files in a certain directory and sub directory on MacOS?

Question

I'm trying out the code that answers this questions:

I tried this:

# Rename all *.js to *.ts
for f in *.js; do 
    mv -- "$f" "${f%.js}.ts"
done

However that results in this:

Oles-MacBook-Pro:src oleersoy$ ./rename.sh 
mv: rename *.js to *.ts: No such file or directory

I also tried this:

rename js ts *.js

And the result of that is:

Bareword "js" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at (eval 2) line 1.

Thoughts?

You don't have any files matching the pattern *.js in the current directory. — Kusalananda, Jun 04 '21 at 17:52
Ah ... Do you know if there's a way to make it do the current directory and sub directories? — Ole, Jun 04 '21 at 18:01

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 04 '21 at 18:20

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OK - found this on SO:

And this works:

find . -name "*.t1" -exec rename 's/\.t1$/.t2/' '{}' +

answered Jun 04 '21 at 18:20

Ole

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