mass renaming

[Don Harrop]

mmv!  That's what I've been looking for.  :-)  BTW, thanks for the perl script.
 That's what I acutally used to do the job and it works very well!

Don

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> > 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
> 
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