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I have a folder containing 500 files like this:

 xaa
 xab
 xac
 xad
 aae
 aaf

I want to add ".txt" to the end of all of them to get something like this:

xaa.txt
xab.txt
xac.txt
xad.txt

How would this be done?

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  • There may be a duplicate Q out there, but the currently-linked one doesn't have answers for this question. Commented Jul 18, 2017 at 20:21

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With simple find + mv command:

find yourfolder/ -type f -exec mv {} {}".txt" \;
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  • yes, works .... Commented Jul 18, 2017 at 17:20
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There are several ways. Here are three:

rename 's/$/.txt/' ???    # Might be prename on some systems

for f in ???; do mv "$f" "$f.txt"; done

find -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec mv {} '{}.txt' \;
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