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Bulk renaming in Debian Linux

The simplest way to this is using a perl script called rename (debian linux only) I used only substitute strings, but it fully supports filenames which is really cool :) rename -v 's/oldString/newString/' *.htm Two sources for this: http://tips.webdesign10.com/how-to-bulk-rename-files-in-linux-in-the-terminal http://www.troubleshooters.com/codecorn/littperl/perlreg.htm