On Thursday 19 May 2005 00:01, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > 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? If all the files in the directory are to have the additional ".html" suffix added then something like this may do: for i in *; do mv $i `basename $i`.html; done If you need to be more selective, you can fiddle with the first section with the "*". For example, to rename only the files beginning with the number "1": for i in 1*; do ........ or files beginning with any number: for i in [1-9]*; do ..... Regards, Mike Klinke
