Timeline for how to rename multiple files by replacing string in file name? this string contains a "#"
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| Jan 30, 2023 at 16:21 | comment | added | mik | @lockheed, maybe your rename is not from util-linux package, the other syntax rename 's/#U00a9/safe/' *.jpg may work in this case | |
| Jan 26, 2023 at 18:32 | comment | added | lockheed | No error. The command runs without any effect or output. | |
| Dec 30, 2022 at 13:37 | comment | added | mik | @lockheed, what is the error? do you have the rename executable at all? | |
| Dec 27, 2022 at 9:53 | comment | added | lockheed | Any reason why neither of these work in Arch Linux in Dec 2022? | |
| May 17, 2019 at 4:14 | comment | added | imclean | This works using the rename command from util-linux. | |
| Apr 21, 2017 at 8:13 | comment | added | marcvangend | Thanks. While the highest voted answer (rename 's/#/somethingelse/' *) didn't work on my machine (Arch Linux), this one did. | |
| Jun 3, 2016 at 15:03 | history | answered | mik | CC BY-SA 3.0 |