On October 22, 2014, Christopher Chaltain wrote: > I can't provide as much information as Tim, but wouldn't mv in > Linux do the same and more than ren in DOS? The DOS "ren" command actually has some smarts, so you can do something like C:\TEMP> ren *.txt *.htm and it will rename all the .txt files in the directory with a .htm extension. The "mv" command isn't nearly so fancy, especially since the shell's globbing expands the file-names before "mv" ever gets a chance to see that you wild-carded them. Fortunately, the "rename" command that I mentioned allows for doing this pretty easily: bash$ rename 's/txt$/htm/' *.txt -tim _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list