Penguin on Rails » Shell http://www.cherpec.com linux + ruby on rails = love Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:06:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Rename command http://www.cherpec.com/2008/12/rename-command/ http://www.cherpec.com/2008/12/rename-command/#comments Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:52:44 +0000 Vitalie Cherpec http://www.cherpec.com/?p=63 Rename it’s handy command from util-linux package when you need to rename multiple files. From the manual: 

NAME
       rename - 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.
...

Example usage:

[vitalie@silver london]$ ls -1
DSC00967.JPG
DSC00968.JPG
DSC00969.JPG
DSC00970.JPG
DSC00971.JPG
[vitalie@silver london]$ rename DSC00 london_ *.JPG
[vitalie@silver london]$ ls -1
london_967.JPG
london_968.JPG
london_969.JPG
london_970.JPG
london_971.JPG
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