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PostPosted: Sun Feb 10, 2019 7:41 am    Post subject: how to rename files in random names Reply with quote

there is a folder with files. how can i rename this files to files with random names from a-z and 0-9, with 24...32 characters?
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 10, 2019 8:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

For create random file name you can use command
Code:
$ cat /dev/urandom | tr -cd 'a-z0-9' | head -c 32

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 10, 2019 10:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

how can i do it so that the length is various, between 24...32 characters ?

and the next, how can i run this command in a folder with files that they are all renamed automatically?
(sorrie i am a newbie with bash scripts)
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 10, 2019 10:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

SarahS93 wrote:
how can i do it so that the length is various, between 24...32 characters ?

Code:
cat /dev/urandom | tr -cd 'a-z0-9' | head -c $(shuf -i 24-32 -n 1)


SarahS93 wrote:
and the next, how can i run this command in a folder with files that they are all renamed automatically?
(sorrie i am a newbie with bash scripts)

Run (this show only how file is renamed)
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$ cd dir_with_file_to_rename
$ for file in *; do echo "${file}" $(cat /dev/urandom | tr -cd 'a-z0-9' | head -c $(shuf -i 24-32 -n 1)); done

then when you see that all is correct change echo with mv command

EDIT: this command rename also directories if exists
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 10, 2019 11:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

great, thank you very much!
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 10, 2019 2:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

fedeliallalinea wrote:

Code:
cat /dev/urandom | tr -cd 'a-z0-9' | head -c $(shuf -i 24-32 -n 1)

Cool idea. What's about using "cut" instead of "head" ?
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 10, 2019 3:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

fedeliallalinea,

That does not test for unique random names.
With 24+ character names, its unlikely to be a real world problem. :)
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 10, 2019 5:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can solve the uniqueness problem and simplify by using mktemp to roll a random unused name, reserve it, and then you overwrite it with the mv. This also avoids using cat just to feed tr. This will also partially solve the directory problem, since the file made by mktemp cannot be overwritten by a directory.
Code:
XX=XXXXXXXX
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -print0 | while read -d '' srcname; do
   echo mv "$srcname" "$(mktemp -u -p . $XX$XX$XX${XX:0:$(($RANDOM % 8))})"
done
This shows what would be done. To make this live, remove the -u and the echo. For simplicity, this version allows uppercase characters too. If lowercase-only is a hard requirement, you could save the name into a bash variable and lowercase it there, but then you don't have the uniqueness guarantee. If you do that, you should leave mktemp in dry-run mode so that it doesn't leave behind names with uppercase letters.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 10, 2019 7:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hu wrote:
You can solve the uniqueness problem and simplify by using mktemp
nit-picking, but I learned, that mktemp is not an atomic operation under linux kernel, whereas mktemp -d is it! ;)
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 10, 2019 7:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What do you mean by not atomic? strace says that mktemp passed O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, so either the create succeeds and gives a new file or it fails and mktemp can try again. Yes, it takes multiple system calls, and that part is not atomic, but I don't see how that race can do anything to violate mktemp's promise of a unique file. mktemp -d likewise requires multiple system calls, so it appears to be just as (non-)atomic as regular mktemp.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 10, 2019 8:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hu wrote:
What do you mean by not atomic? strace says that mktemp passed O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, so either the create succeeds and gives a new file or it fails and mktemp can try again. Yes, it takes multiple system calls, and that part is not atomic, but I don't see how that race can do anything to violate mktemp's promise of a unique file. mktemp -d likewise requires multiple system calls, so it appears to be just as (non-)atomic as regular mktemp.
This http://www.linux-magazin.de/ausgaben/2012/05/bash-bashing/2/ explains (in german) why mkdir is better than a simple file.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 10, 2019 9:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mktemp is not a simple file created-or-opened by the shell. It is a file guaranteed to have been created new by mktemp. Yes, using file existence tests / touch as shown in the article is unreliable, because those do not use O_EXCL.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 12:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've been curious what the application is, that requires a folder full of files to be renamed randomly.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 6:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

NeddySeagoon wrote:
That does not test for unique random names.
With 24+ character names, its unlikely to be a real world problem. :)

You right but can use mv -i for prevent overwriting or check the randon name generated with a little test
Code:
for file in *; do
   while true; do
      RANDOM_NAME=$(cat /dev/urandom | tr -cd 'a-z0-9' | head -c $(shuf -i 24-32 -n 1));
      if [ ! -f ${RANDOM_NAME} ]; then
         echo "${file}" "${RANDOM_NAME}"
         break;
      fi
   done
done

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 8:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you're okay with 36 character names:
Code:
for nm in *; do mv -vn "$nm" $(</proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid); done
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 13, 2019 8:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:
for file in *; do echo "${file}" $(cat /dev/urandom | tr -cd 'a-z0-9' | head -c $(shuf -i 24-32 -n 1)); done

works fine.

this is for an aprilfool, so i need a way to save the original filenames with the new names, how does this work?
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 13, 2019 8:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

SarahS93,

This prank might be mistaken for ransomware. Are you sure its a good idea?
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 13, 2019 8:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:
rm original_names.txt
for file in *; do
   while true; do
      RANDOM_NAME=$(cat /dev/urandom | tr -cd 'a-z0-9' | head -c $(shuf -i 24-32 -n 1));
      if [ ! -f ${RANDOM_NAME} ]; then
         echo "${file}" "${RANDOM_NAME}" >> original_names.txt
         echo "${file}" "${RANDOM_NAME}";
         break;
      fi
   done
done

Test if work change second echo with mv
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 13, 2019 8:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

fedeliallalinea,

... and the undo magical incantation is ...
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 13, 2019 10:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Why are we helping someone write what appears to be ransomware? I cannot think of a legitimate reason to ever need to randomly rename files. Doesn't mean there isn't one (maybe my imagination isn't good enough). But, absent a compelling stated purpose, I would certainly not want my name associated with this. To me, this smells like either someone's homework assignment, or a poor attempt at writing malware.

I sincerely hope I'm proven wrong.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 1:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Akkara wrote:
Why are we helping someone write what appears to be ransomware? I cannot think of a legitimate reason to ever need to randomly rename files. Doesn't mean there isn't one (maybe my imagination isn't good enough). But, absent a compelling stated purpose, I would certainly not want my name associated with this. To me, this smells like either someone's homework assignment, or a poor attempt at writing malware.

I sincerely hope I'm proven wrong.
I chimed in because earlier posts used shell in grossly suboptimal ways. I'm so used to people asking for useless things on the basis that they think it will solve their problem that I didn't think of that possibility. Now that this possibility has been pointed out, I'm out, barring a better explanation than "April Fool's prank", particularly given the thread's start date versus April 1st.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 6:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hu wrote:
I'm so used to people asking for useless things on the basis that they think it will solve their problem that I didn't think of that possibility.

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 11:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

that won't be any fun, if you do such thing to my files, i won't welcome you with a smile, more with a hammer.
the first reaction from people victim of things like that, is deleting the offending files in order to "stop spreading".

what will you do once your stupid idea (because it's an idea, never i would consider this a joke) has made your friends remove their precious files?
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 12:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

guys, that has nothing todo with any kind of ransomware.
i plan an april fool to my brothers computer.
later,i will use this way of crypting filenames to post some stuff to the usenet.
i can rename files back by hand, but is there a way to let a script do this?
i am bad in bash shell scripts, so i ask here, and i thank you guys for your help!
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 7:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

SarahS93,

One word of advice. Don't.
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