redhat man page for rename

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NAME
       rename - Rename files

SYNOPSIS
       rename from to file...

DESCRIPTION
       rename will rename the specified files by replacing the first occurrence of from in their name by to.

       For example, given the files foo1, ..., foo9, foo10, ..., foo278, the commands

	      rename foo foo0 foo?
	      rename foo foo0 foo??

       will turn them into foo001, ..., foo009, foo010, ..., foo278.

       And
	      rename .htm .html *.htm

       will fix the extension of your html files.

SEE ALSO
       mv(1)

								  1 January 2000							 RENAME(1)