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.\" Written by Andries E. Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl)
.\" Placed in the public domain
.\"
.TH RENAME 1 "1 January 2000" "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
rename \- Rename files
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BI rename " from to file..."
.br
.BI rename " -V"
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B rename
will rename the specified files by replacing the first occurrence of
.I from
in their name by
.IR to .
.TP
.I "\-V," "\-\-version"
Display version information and exit.
.TP
For example, given the files
.IR foo1 ", ..., " foo9 ", " foo10 ", ..., " foo278 ,
the commands
.RS
.nf
rename foo foo0 foo?
rename foo foo0 foo??
.fi
.RE
will turn them into
.IR foo001 ", ..., " foo009 ", " foo010 ", ..., " foo278 .
And
.RS
.nf
rename .htm .html *.htm
.fi
.RE
will fix the extension of your html files.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR mmv (1),
.BR mv (1)
.SH AVAILABILITY
The rename command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.
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