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Find and rename file recursively

Hi,

I have a directory which contains multiple files with .txt extension, i want to rename all these file to .bak extension using find command, this is what i've tried, please help me to correct this :
Code:
find /home/application/test -name '*.txt'  -exec rename  's/txt/bak/'  {}  \;

seems to me like it is not the standard way of doing this, is there any other way using combination of find and sed??
 
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COPY(3) 								 1								   COPY(3)

copy - Copies file

SYNOPSIS
bool copy (string $source, string $dest, [resource $context]) DESCRIPTION
Makes a copy of the file $source to $dest. If you wish to move a file, use the rename(3) function. PARAMETERS
o $source - Path to the source file. o $dest - The destination path. If $dest is a URL, the copy operation may fail if the wrapper does not support overwriting of existing files. Warning If the destination file already exists, it will be overwritten. o $context - A valid context resource created with stream_context_create(3). RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ | 5.3.4 | | | | | | | Changed the $context parameter to actually have | | | an effect. Previously, any $context was ignored. | | | | | 5.3.0 | | | | | | | Added context support. | | | | | 4.3.0 | | | | | | | Both $source and $dest may now be URLs if the | | | "fopen wrappers" have been enabled. See fopen(3) | | | for more details. | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ EXAMPLES
Example #1 copy(3) example <?php $file = 'example.txt'; $newfile = 'example.txt.bak'; if (!copy($file, $newfile)) { echo "failed to copy $file... "; } ?> SEE ALSO
move_uploaded_file(3), rename(3), The section of the manual about handling file uploads. PHP Documentation Group COPY(3)