How would one use mv to rename files? I need something easy to remember! I
have no idea how to 'speak this command. rename 's/\.JPG$/.jpg/' *.JPG
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Stephen <
cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:
> Still works. But that was more graceful. :-)
> On Feb 20, 2012 7:26 PM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> worked like a charm. I seem to remember that I use to rename files with
>> 'mv'. am I mistaken? or did something change?
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Ben Browning <benb@bensbrowning.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Ariel Gold <arielqgold@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Here's one way to do it:
>>> >
>>> > for f in *JPG ; do mv $f `basename $f JPG`jpg; done
>>>
>>> On machines with perls rename installed(usually Debian and Ubuntu), "
>>> rename 's/\.JPG$/.jpg/' *.JPG " will do it too.
>>>
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