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at September 1, 2010 03:53 by jarnaldich
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ls -d *.foo | sed -e 's/.*/mv & &/' -e 's/foo$/bar/' | sh
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To rename a bunch of files from "*.foo" to "*.bar" (like windows' REN *.foo *.bar) in unix.

Looking at the solution, it is easy to adapt it to more powerful character substitutions on  a 1 to 1 basis.

If you want to test what will be executed before doing so, just drop the last pipe.

                                

                                                            

                                    

                                        

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Batch rename with wildcard support in Unix

                                

                                                            

                                    

                                        

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unix

                                

                                                            

                                    

                                        

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