Linux: how to recursively rename files

Konstantinos Patronas
LinuxStories
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1 min readJun 5, 2020

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One of the most common tasks when it comes to file manipulation is renaming files, to rename one or two files manually is easy, but how we can automate a mass file renaming task?

Scenario: we have a directory with sub-directories that contain files with xlsx extension that we want to change to xls…

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Konstantinos Patronas
LinuxStories

DevOps engineer, loves Linux, Python, cats and Rock music