How to rename file on CentOS and RHEL 6/7 step by step guide

In this article we will learn how to rename file and multiple files on linux system which is very common task for a linux administrator and also change the extension of the multiple file in linux system.

How to rename single file on CentOS and RHEL linux system

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To rename the file of the linux system we need to execute the below command.

#mv <oldfile> <newfile>

Lets take an example we have one file names testold and we want to rename this file name to testnew.so we need to execute the below command.

#mv testold testnew

[root@localhost project]# touch testold

[root@localhost project]# ls

testold

[root@localhost project]# mv testold testnew

After execute the above command we can verify it using ls command.

[root@localhost project]# ls

Testnew

How to rename file on CentOS and RHEL 6/7 step by step guide

How to rename multiple file on linux system

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To rename multiple files on linux system we need to use rename coammnd.

#rename  's/old/new/' files

Suppose we have many files with the extension of sh we need to change the extension into txt so we need to execute the below commands.

#rename  's/sh/txt/' *.sh

*  indicates that all files with sh extension will be converted to txt extension.

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How to rename file on CentOS and RHEL 6/7 step by step guide