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Substring Replacement With BASH




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.



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