| From: Ron / BCLUG via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | How does `rename` (a Perl program, I believe?) handle globbing and pathname | expansion? | | | i.e. in a folder with 3 files: one.sh, two.sh, file.tar, typing: | | rename *.sh * | | means rename gets passed these parameters: | | one.sh two.sh one.sh two.sh file.tar The DOS ren command is very simple. So too is the Unix Utilities one included in Fedora by default. rename [options] expression replacement file... The expression and replacement are simple strings, not patterns. There are options like --all and --last that affect where the expression can be matched. What you want is rename .sh '' *.sh which means for each filename matched by *.sh change every occurrence of ".sh" in its name to '' (empty) I think that regular expressions in at least "expression" would be nice. I'd often use ^ or $, to prevent surprises. So the perl-based version might be more useful. But I so rarely use rename that I have to read the man page each time. Once or twice a year.