Here’s a little trick when you need to mass rename files in Unix: for example, if you have a bunch of files where you need to replace the word “foo” with “bar” you can do as such:
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for f in `ls *`; do mv "$f" "${f/foo/bar}"; done |
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Or use rename -v ‘s/foo/bar/ *
Something like that 😉