rename file using one single command

herewith if you want to rename mass file with same extention


ls | xargs -i mv {} {}.tmp

revert back to original file


for a in $(ls);do echo "renaming $a";new_name=`echo $a |sed 's/.tmp//g'`;mv $a $new_name;done

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