given: bash-3.00$ ls -al total 984 drwxr-xr-x 2 thufir thufir 4096 May 16 02:18 . drwx------ 15 thufir thufir 4096 May 16 02:18 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 thufir thufir 12354 May 14 22:30 1151154 -rw-r--r-- 1 thufir thufir 12955 May 14 22:16 1199229 -rw-r--r-- 1 thufir thufir 13639 May 14 22:22 1238181 -rw-r--r-- 1 thufir thufir 13996 May 14 22:24 1268816 -rw-r--r-- 1 thufir thufir 12176 May 14 22:37 1276032 ... and then: bash-3.00$ mv 1151154 1151154.html bash-3.00$ mv 1199229 1199229.html bash-3.00$ mv 1238181 1238181.html each file can be changed. however, there are many files and that is very tedious. can the above three commands (or 50, or 100) be written with a single rename command? thanks, Thufir