mass renaming

Brian Cluff brian@snaptek.com
Tue, 22 Aug 2000 17:55:35 -0700


> I'm trying to rename a ton of files with a certain extension to another
> extension type.  If this is possible with the mv command I can't figure
out
> the syntax..  Anyone know how to do this?

There is a command called mmv that you can get in various places (suse has
an rpm of it)
then all you do is:
mmv "*.jpg" #1.gif
and it would rename all your jpeg files to gifs.  I highly recomend it.

Brian Cluff