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renaming filenames inside of subdirectories
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this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2026
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My guess is that he was doing a "find . | grep filename", which is a way to output a list of all occurrences within that directory structure, hence why they mentioned grep.
exactly what I did. I also didn't know the existence of
rename. how would I go abt using it alongsidefind?edit: wrong cmd mentioned
User @zeppo@lemmy.world is who mentioned the use of "rename". Mentioning in order to grab their attention.
I've never really used rename. It has different features compared to mv, though. rename has more options for batch renaming such as regular expression support, though the behavior varies by distro.
Yep