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How to mass rename file in Bash

Answer:

For example, you might want to rename *.htm to *.html, create the following scripts

vi rename.sh

And enter

#!/bin/bash 

for f in *.htm; do
    mv $f ${f%htm}html
done

Execute the script and it does all the rename magics.

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