Rename Multiple Files in Bash

08Nov09

Here’s a quick tip for renaming multiple files with the same name <name> but different extensions <ext>. You want to retain the extensions and only change <name> to <new-name>.

for i in `ls`; do
mv -fv “$i” `ls “$i” | sed ’s/././’`
done

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