I created a file called myself:
Red Hat > ls
Red Hat > touch myself
Red Hat > ls
myself
Red Hat > ls
Red Hat > touch myself
Red Hat > ls
myself
Red Hat >
I decided it should have been called yourself so I used mv to change its name:
Red Hat > mv myself yourself
Red Hat > ls
yourself
Red Hat >
Then I decided to use the rename command to call it himself instead. To do this I had to provide the part of the name I wanted to change, what I wanted to change it to and the filename to act upon (if that makes sense):
Red Hat > rename yourself himself yourself
Red Hat > ls
himself
Red Hat >
This approach is more complicated but it gives greater flexibility. To try this out I created several files with .txt suffixes:
Red Hat > rm *
Red Hat > touch file{1..5}.txt
Red Hat > ls
file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt file4.txt file5.txt
Red Hat >
I then decided to remove the suffixes and did this as follows:
Red Hat > rename .txt '' file*
Red Hat > ls
file1 file2 file3 file4 file5
Red Hat >
I decided it should have been called yourself so I used mv to change its name:
Red Hat > mv myself yourself
Red Hat > ls
yourself
Red Hat >
Then I decided to use the rename command to call it himself instead. To do this I had to provide the part of the name I wanted to change, what I wanted to change it to and the filename to act upon (if that makes sense):
Red Hat > rename yourself himself yourself
Red Hat > ls
himself
Red Hat >
This approach is more complicated but it gives greater flexibility. To try this out I created several files with .txt suffixes:
Red Hat > rm *
Red Hat > touch file{1..5}.txt
Red Hat > ls
file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt file4.txt file5.txt
Red Hat >
I then decided to remove the suffixes and did this as follows:
Red Hat > rename .txt '' file*
Red Hat > ls
file1 file2 file3 file4 file5
Red Hat >
