renaming (lots of) files in bash

By brian | Published: January 9, 2009

I found this method the other day. Unfortunately, I forget where.

$ for f in `ls -1 | grep string`; do mv $f ${f/string/replace};done

I’d like to find a method of using the bash command `find’, but this is pretty clean, and I don’t yet know how to manipulate the `{}’ in find -exec {} \;

great site for explaining bash variable manipulation.

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