rename − Rename files |
rename from to file... |
rename will rename the specified files by replacing the first occurrence of from in their name by to. |
−V, −−version |
Display version information and exit. |
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. |
mmv(1), mv(1) |
The rename command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/. |