Knowing how to rename files in Linux is a handy skill that allows you to give your files more meaningful names or organize them better. There's no point owning one of the best computers if you don ...

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In the past few weeks, I realized I needed another fairly specialized script for file renaming, but this time, I wanted to write something as generally useful as possible. There's already a utility ...

Sandra Henry-Stocker was a programmer, Linux systems administrator, security engineer and Linux journalist for most of her 30-year career. She describes herself as "USL" (Unix as a second language ...

Hi! I'm a complete UNIX newbie, so please forgive the question. Is there a UNIX shell command that will rename all the files in a directory to something like "file1.txt", "file2.txt", etc? I don't ...

Can someone tell me how to 'monitor' if a file exists and then rename it incrementally with a bash command?<BR><BR>What I'm trying to do is use a program to generate fractal .png images and it ...