Unix Tip #4537- August 13, 2023


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RENAME A LARGE NUMBER OF FILES



This a an oldie but a goodie. There always comes a
time when a large number of files need to be renamed.

Here is one quick way to do it:

=================== cut here ===========================

#!/bin/sh

for i in *
do
echo $i
mv $i `basename $i`.bak
done


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