RENAME
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: June 2011
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NAME
rename - rename files
SYNOPSIS
rename
[
options]
expression replacement file...
DESCRIPTION
rename
will rename the specified files by replacing the first occurrence of
expression
in their name by
replacement.
OPTIONS
- -v, --verbose
-
Give visual feedback which files where renamed, if any.
- -V, --version
-
Display version information and exit.
- -h, --help
-
Display help text and exit.
EXAMPLES
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 .shtml *.htm
will fix the extension of your html files.
WARNING
The renaming has no safeguards. If the user has permission to rewrite file names,
the command will perform the action without any questions. For example, the
result can be quite drastic when the command is run as root in the /lib
directory. Always make a backup before running the command, unless you truly
know what you are doing.
SEE ALSO
mmv(1),
mv(1)
AVAILABILITY
The rename command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- EXAMPLES
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- WARNING
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- SEE ALSO
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- AVAILABILITY
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