Re: OT: Wildcard renaming of files

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

csj@mindgate.net wrote:
>I have a bunch of files I want to rename from .html to .htm. Is there I way to
>rename them all at once?
>
>I remember from my DOS days a command like "ren" (or is it "rename"?) that
>would do the trick. Something like:
>
>ren *.html *.htm

Somebody's already mentioned mmv. You could also have taken a leap of
faith and tried 'rename', though the syntax is different to that of DOS,
involving Perl (often regular expressions):

  rename 's/\.html$/.htm/' *.html

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]