Re: OT: Wildcard renaming of files

[Michael Abraham Shulman <shulman@caltech.edu>]

"csj" == csj  <csj@mindgate.net> writes:

csj> I have a bunch of files I want to rename from .html to .htm. Is
csj> there I way to rename them all at once?

$ mmv '*.html' '#1.htm'

See mmv(1) for more info.  The quotes are necessary, because you want
`mmv' to do the wildcard expansion instead of the shell; alternately,
you can give the expressions on stdin rather than the command line.
The program `mmv' comes in the package of the same name.

\\// | R | T R | L B | //\\ ~ Michael Abraham Shulman
mailto:shulman@caltech.edu  ~ jabber://mas@jabber.org
http://kurukshetra.cjb.net/ ~ GnuPG Public Key #21A279E5

Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it.
        -- Curtius-Rufus