{"id":4174,"date":"2024-03-13T08:02:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T08:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-batch-rename-files-using-a-shell\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T04:18:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T04:18:53","slug":"how-to-batch-rename-files-using-a-shell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-batch-rename-files-using-a-shell\/","title":{"rendered":"Batch Rename Files in Shell: Easy Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To rename multiple files using shell, you can use a for loop combined with the mv command. Here is a simple example:<\/p>\n<p>To rename all files ending in .txt to end in .bak in bulk, you can use the following command:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">for<\/span> file <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">in<\/span> *.txt; <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">do<\/span>\r\n  <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">mv<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"<span class=\"hljs-variable\">$file<\/span>\"<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"<span class=\"hljs-variable\">${file%.txt}<\/span>.bak\"<\/span>\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">done<\/span>\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In the above command, &#8220;for file in *.txt&#8221; will loop through all files ending in .txt, and then use the &#8220;mv&#8221; command to rename the files with an ending of .bak. &#8220;${file%.txt}&#8221; will remove the .txt part from the file name and then add .bak at the end.<\/p>\n<p>Please be careful when performing batch renaming operations to avoid accidentally deleting or overwriting important files. 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