rename.ul

NAME

rename - Rename files

I rename from to file...
I rename -V

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

-V, --version

Display version information and exit.

For example, given the files R foo1 , ..., foo9 , foo10 , ..., foo278 , the commands

rename foo foo0 foo?
rename foo foo0 foo??

will turn them into R foo001 , ..., foo009 , foo010 , ..., foo278 . And

rename .htm .html *.htm

will fix the extension of your html files.

The rename command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.