How to change the names of different type of files? (shell)

Question

Easy question for the wise. I have a bunch of files with the same name but different extensions, e.g:

file1.a
file1.b
file1.c

and I want to rename all of them to

name.a
name.b
name.c

How can I do this? thanks.

possible duplicate of [How to do a mass rename?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/417916/how-to-do-a-mass-rename) — BMW, Apr 23 '14 at 12:23
what about when you reach z letter and you have yet some file to rename? — bioinfornatics, Apr 23 '14 at 12:29

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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So as BMW pointed out, there is another similar question (How to do a mass rename? )

Just for the sake of it I will put the answer here:

To rename files with different extension you can do the following:

mmv "file1.*" "name.#1"

Thanks!

edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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answered Apr 23 '14 at 12:33

Nikko

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