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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Rename File Name with Special Characters Post 303018512 by jim mcnamara on Friday 8th of June 2018 11:52:14 AM
Old 06-08-2018
This discusses the problems with Linux distributions and rename + regex. It is a mess.
Renaming files in linux with a regex - Server Fault

You can try the perl workaround in the answer.

No one answer works well on every Linux distribution. Sadly.
You really need to validate what exact command you have to use:
Code:
perl, rename-perl, rename

-- based on your system distribution. It may be better now, but I ran afoul of this about 3 years ago.

Heed the warnings in link about doing your homework first.
 

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