Re: Batch rename files

[Dave Sherohman <esper@usinternet.com>]

Arcady Genkin said:
> What would be the easiest way to rename a bunch of files
> 
> foo-[0-9]-bar-[0-9][0-9].txt
> 
> into
> 
> blah-[0-9]-[0-9][0-9].txt

mmv is the way to go.  It's in the mmv package (imagine that...); just
install it (if you haven't already done so) and then

mmv "foo-*-bar-*" blah-#1-#2

(The second * will catch both of the trailing digits and the .txt extension
and funnel them all into #2.  If there are other files which match this
pattern that you don't want getting changed, range specifications of [0-9]
are accepted by mmv also.)

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