Shell Geek: Rename Multiple Files At Once
Let's say you have a directory with hundreds of files with the wrong file names, and you'd like to replace every filename containing test with prod. (this is a contrived example). We can easily do this with the "for" command in bash, combined with a little bit of bash goodness. Today we'll learn how to replace text in a variable in a for loop.
The "for" command works like this:
for var in ;do $var;done
You can replace with any file match pattern, such as * or *.txt, and you can replace with any linux command. The command will be run in sequence on each of the files matched by the file match pattern.
This is where the bash variable handling makes it even more interesting.
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