Is there a linux command like mv but with regex?

As others have mentioned, is good at this, but read the man page ( ) before you try it. There are at least two entirely different tools out there called and which one you have will depend on your distribution. Calling them incorrectly can be dangerous. Here's the man page for the perl-based version by Larry Wall that ships with Ubuntu. You give it a perl expression like Here's the man page for the rename that ships with older Red Hat and CentOS distributions. Usage is simple string substitution…