Re: OT: Wildcard renaming of files

[brian moore <bem@cmc.net>]

On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 05:18:19AM +0800, 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
> 
> What's the Linux equivalent of this trick? mv only renames files explicitly. Or
> is there something in the man page I skipped?

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

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