Let’s say you have a bunch of files in a directory with names like
dog.jpeg
, cat.jpeg
, fountain.jpeg
, etc. Your OCD insists that you rename them all to more “regular” names like dog.jpg
, cat.jpg
, and fountain.jpg
. If you use zsh
, pat yourself on the back for using a cool shell, and run these commands:autoload zmv
zmv -W '*.jpeg' '*.jpg'
You probably know this already, but it’s worth mentioning. Single quotes around the patterns is important because we want zmv
to interpret the pattern; zsh
should pass the pattern as such to zmv
without expanding it.