Substring Replacement With BASH Topic:GNU/Linux   Date: 2006-06-02 Printer Friendly:

If you need to rename a substring of a bunch of filenames to something else, use a command like this:

for i in server*.html; do mv $i ${i/server/workstation} ; done

This changes all serverblah.html files to workstationblah.html. For more on BASH, see the BASH Manpage.