Installation

brew install rename

See: http://plasmasturm.org/code/rename/

Regex substitution

rename 's/hello/world/' *.txt

Rename hello.txt to world.txt and so on in *.txt.

Replace extension

rename -s .png .jpg.png *.png

Replace .png with .jpg.png in *.png.

Options

Option Description
-n Simulation
-l Symlink instead of rename
-i Interactive

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