Re: [PLUG] batch renaming

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

Chris Marget wrote:

>On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Art Alexion wrote:
>
>  
>
>>in dos if I wanted to rename a batch of files i a directory, I could do
>>
>>    move (or rn) ??.txt 61??.txt
>>
>>and it would rename all of the two character-named text files to prepend
>>61.  Bash won't let me do this as
>>
>>    mv ??.txt 61??.txt
>>
>>returns an error indicating that. when moving multiple files, the target
>>must be a directory.  Is there a command that will let me do this?
>>    
>>
>
>for file in ??.txt
>do
>  mv $file 61$file
>done
>
>that will prepend '61' onto every filename.  is that what you're trying
>to do?
>
>  
>
Yes.  Thanks.

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