Unix Tip: RENAME A LARGE NUMBER OF FILES

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Unix Tip 3131 - September 1, 2008

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RENAME A LARGE NUMBER OF FILES

This a an oldie but a goodie. There always comes a time when a large number of files need to be renamed.

Here is one quick way to do it:

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#!/bin/sh

for i in *
do
echo $i
mv $i `basename $i`.bak
done

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