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NAME

       rename - Rename files

SYNOPSIS

       rename from to file...
       rename -V

DESCRIPTION

       rename   will  rename  the  specified  files  by  replacing  the  first
       occurrence of from in their name by to.

       -V, --version
              Display version information and exit.

       For example, given the files
              foo1, ..., foo9, foo10, ..., foo278, the commands

              rename foo foo0 foo?
              rename foo foo0 foo??

       will turn them into foo001, ..., foo009, foo010, ..., foo278.

       And
              rename .htm .html *.htm

       will fix the extension of your html files.

SEE ALSO

       mmv(1), mv(1)

AVAILABILITY

       The rename  command  is  part  of  the  util-linux-ng  package  and  is
       available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.

                                1 January 2000                       RENAME(1)