One liner to rename bunch of files

Question

I was looking for a linux command line one-liner to rename a bunch of files in one shot.

pattern1.a  pattern1.b pattern1.c ...

Once the com

Answer 1

If you happen to be using Linux, you may also have a perl script at /usr/bin/rename which cane rename files based on more complex patterns than shell globbing permits.

The /usr/bin/rename on one of my systems is documented here. It could be used like this:

rename "s/pattern1/pattern2/" pattern1.*

A number of other Linux environments seem to have a different rename that might be used like this:

rename pattern1 pattern2 pattern1.*

Check man rename on your system for details.