mass renaming

> 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