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Rename a group of files with one command

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Mar 15, 202630034 views
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Problem

If I have a group of files with a .htm extention, how can I rename them all to .html? does not work.

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mv *.htm *.html

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Or, you could use pure bash... (except for mv, that is..) and avoid the nasty basename stuff. ;) Bash has an extensive set of variable expansion options. The one used here, '%', removes the smallest matching suffix from the value of the variable. Th…

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