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RENAME(1) User Commands RENAME(1)
rename - rename files
rename [options] expression replacement file...
rename will rename the specified files by replacing the first
occurrence of expression in their name by replacement.
-s, --symlink
Do not rename a symlink but its target.
-v, --verbose
Show which files were renamed, if any.
-n, --no-act
Do not make any changes; add --verbose to see what would
be made.
-o, --no-overwrite
Do not overwrite existing files. When --symlink is
active, do not overwrite symlinks pointing to existing
targets.
-i, --interactive
Ask before overwriting existing files.
-V, --version
Display version information and exit.
-h, --help
Display help text and exit.
The renaming has no safeguards by default or without any one of
the options --no-overwrite, --interactive or --no-act. If the
user has permission to rewrite file names, the command will
perform the action without any questions. For example, the
result can be quite drastic when the command is run as root in
the /lib directory. Always make a backup before running the
command, unless you truly know what you are doing.
As most standard utilities rename can be used with a terminal
device (tty in short) in canonical mode, where the line is
buffered by the tty and you press ENTER to validate the user
input. If you put your tty in cbreak mode however, rename
requires only a single key press to answer the prompt. To set
cbreak mode, run for example:
sh -c 'stty -icanon min 1; "$0" "$@"; stty icanon' rename -i from to files
0 all requested rename operations were successful
1 all rename operations failed
2 some rename operations failed
4 nothing was renamed
64 unanticipated error occurred
Given the files foo1, ..., foo9, foo10, ..., foo278, the commands
rename foo foo00 foo?
rename foo foo0 foo??
will turn them into foo001, ..., foo009, foo010, ..., foo278.
And
rename .htm .html *.htm
will fix the extension of your html files. Provide an empty
string for shortening:
rename '_with_long_name' '' file_with_long_name.*
will remove the substring in the filenames.
mv(1)
The rename command is part of the util-linux package and is
available from
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
This page is part of the util-linux (a random collection of Linux
utilities) project. Information about the project can be found
at ⟨https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/⟩. If you
have a bug report for this manual page, send it to
util-linux@vger.kernel.org. This page was obtained from the
project's upstream Git repository
⟨git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git⟩ on
2020-12-18. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit
that was found in the repository was 2020-12-17.) If you
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manual page), send a mail to man-pages@man7.org
util-linux June 2011 RENAME(1)
Pages that refer to this page: rename(2), strverscmp(3)
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