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rename can handle multiple files as argument, you can vastly speed things up by using + instead of \; if there are many such files

Anthon
– Anthon

2015-02-17 08:57:03 +00:00
Commented Feb 17, 2015 at 8:57
Still, it is a useful option since "*.txt" can unroll to a large argument list unsupported by the shell.

Roman Shapovalov
– Roman Shapovalov

2016-10-19 13:14:38 +00:00
Commented Oct 19, 2016 at 13:14
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"s/oldExtension/newExtension/" will fail for footxt.txt. Use this instead: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/19654/…

wisbucky
– wisbucky

2017-08-01 23:59:24 +00:00
Commented Aug 1, 2017 at 23:59

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