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Section: Linux Programmer’s Manual (1)
Updated: 1 January 2000
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NAME
SYNOPSIS
rename from to file…
DESCRIPTION
rename
will rename the specified files by replacing the first occurrence of
from
in their name by
to.
For example, given the files
foo1, …, foo9, foo10, …, foo278,
the commands
rename foo foo0 foo?
rename foo foo0 foo??
will turn them into
foo001, …, foo009, foo010, …, foo278.
And
rename .htm .html *.htm
will fix the extension of your html files.
SEE ALSO
mmv(1),
mv(1)
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