rename - Unix, Linux Command


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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.

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