Rename files.
Syntax
rename from to file...
rename will rename the specified files by replacing the first occurrence of from in their name by to.
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.
Fix the extension of your .htm files so they become .html :
$ rename .htm .html *.htm
Rename all files (*) to be lowercase:
$ rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' *
Rename is NOT a bash builtin, it is available on most distributions, if you dont have it then an alternative is to use a for loop. For example to rename a folder full of .txt files to have the extension .html
$ for i in *.txt; do mv "$i" "'basename $i .txt'.html"; done
or
$ for files in *.txt; do mv "$files" "${files%.txt}.html"; done
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Related linux commands:
mv - Move or rename files or directories.
Equivalent Windows command: REN - Rename files.