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This is where the bash variable handling makes it even more interesting. Instead of just doing something like "mv $var", we can replace text in the filename using this syntax:

${var/originaltext/replacetext}


So now, if we run this command on our directory:

for f in *;do mv $f ${f/test/prod};done

to regex shell bash hints mv by hostmaster on Wed Mar 05 12:05:37 +0000 2008

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