Originally Posted by rbatte1

Welcome zimmerru,

You will have to work out the process for doing one, then call do that in a loop for all. I have a few to questions pose in response first:-Most importantly, What have you tried so far?

The suggestion from chacko193 may or may not work depending on your OS & shell, hence the questions above.

There are probably many ways to achieve most tasks, so giving us an idea of your style and thoughts will help us guide you to an answer most suitable to you so you can adjust it to suit your needs in future.

By way of explanation, cp page*.jpg *.jpg will be expanded to actually be:-

Code:

cp page1.jpg page2.jpg page3.jpg .... pagennn.jpg  abc.jpg page1.jpg page2.jpg page3.jpg .... pagennn.jpg

The process will copy all files that match either page*.jpg or *.jpg over the last file alphabetically that matches *.jpg so if you have page999.jpg, that will have been overwritten, unless your OS (unspecified) refuses to multiple copy unless the last item in the list is a directory.


We're all here to learn and getting the relevant information will help us all.

Originally Posted by chacko193

Welcome to the forum.

First of all cp will not rename the file, it will just create a copy of the original file. If you want to rename a file you need to use mv.

If you are using bash, try:

Code:

for file in page*.jpg
do
    mv ${file} ${file/page/00}
done