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uggedal on Aug 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Awesome but commonly unknown Linux Commands

qmv from renameutils will bring up $EDITOR with all files in the current directory in two columns. Edit some filenames and save. The files will be renamed accordingly.

phaker on Aug 10, 2011 [–]

'rename' uses arbitrary perl expressions, including regexes. from the manpage:

  rename 's/\.bak$//' *.bak

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