Tip #571 Change file extension revisited
And again about file extension changing.There are two tips about this:
#27 - http://www.shell-fu.org/lister.php?id=27
#544 - http://www.shell-fu.org/lister.php?id=544
I'm happy to provide one more variant. It's up to you which one is the most useful.
function chext(){
local fname
local new_ext="$1"
shift
IFS=$'\n'
for fname in $@
do
mv "$fname" "${fname%.*}.$new_ext"
done
}
If you place this function into .bashrc, then you may use it like as follows:
chext new_ext *.old_ext chext html `find ~ -iname "*.htm"` find ~ -iname "*.htm" | xargs chext html
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