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Old 09-20-2007
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You will have to run a loop that goes over all the files in the directory one at a time, because you can only rename one file in one mv command.

If you want to do this, you will have to establish some logic that can translate your current name to your new name. That means that all files will be renamed in a similar manner (removing the spaces in the filename, for instance).