How to rename with prefix/suffix?
How do I do mv original.filename new.original.filename without retyping the original filename? I would imagine being able to do something like mv -p=new. original.filename or perhaps mv original.filename new.~ or whatever - but I can't see anything like this after looking at man mv / info mv pages. Of course, I could write a shell script to do this, but isn't there an existing command/flag for it? In Bash and zsh you can do this with Brace Expansion . This simply expands a list of items in braces. For example: # echo {vanilla,chocolate,strawberry}-ice-cream vanilla-ice-cream chocolate-ice