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RENAME (1)

Rename files

SYNOPSIS

    rename from to file...

DESCRIPTION

    rename will rename the specified files by replacing the first occurrence of from in their name by to .

    For example, 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 .html *.htm
      

    will fix the extension of your html files.

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