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Rename files with one extension to another

Posted on 10. April 20074. December 2007 by Hans-Henry Jakobsen

The following command will rename all the files in the folder with the .txt extension to .rtf

ls *.txt | sed 's/\(.*\)\.txt/ & \1.rtf/' | xargs -L1 mv

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Posted in: Linux, ScriptingTagged: sed, xargs

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