GNU/Linux - Renaming a Bunch of Files to Random Names

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Renaming a Bunch of Files to Random Names
Topic:GNU/Linux Date: 2010-07-13
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Say you have a bunch of files in a directory and you want to turn them all into random file names. Run this command from Bash:

for fname in *; do mv "$fname" $RANDOM.fil; done

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