How to Rename List of files in a directory

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

How can i rename list of files in a directory?

2

By using the mv command.

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3

sorry

scenario

for ex in a directory i have 3 files with names as
oldfile111.txt
oldfile222.txt
oldfile333.txt

i want this to be renames to
newfile111.txt
newfile222.txt
newfile333.txt

Thanks in advance...

4 
while read fname
do
   newname=$(echo "$fname" | sed 's/oldfile/newfile/')
   mv $fname $newname
done < list_of_files.txt
5

Alternatively try:

oldname=oldfile newname=newfile
for file in "${oldname}"*; do
  mv "$file" "${newname}${file#$oldname}"
done