[ILUG] How do I mv a bunch of files w/ a RE?

[John P. Looney]

On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 12:41:49AM +0200, Braun Brelin mentioned:
> 
> a001.html
> a002.html
> a003.html
> 
> I'd like to find a single 'mv' command to change these files from axxx.html 
> to bxxx.html.
> 
> Obviously, commands like 'mv a???.html b???.html' don't work.
> I'd prefer a single line shell command rather than some sort of foreach if 
> possible.

 The command you need is "rename".


NAME
       rename - Rename files

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.

Kate

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