[Leaplist] howto change the name of every file in a directory

[Richard F. Ostrow Jr.]

write this into your console:

cd /path/to/my/dune/mp3s
for x in * ; do
mv $x \[dune_3\]_$x
done

and that's it
<quote who="Mr. Brunkow">
> to add something to the front of the name?
>
> I have the audio MP3 collection of the Dune line of books.  I want to
> burn a MP3 CD, but dune, dune messiah are in order by alphabetics, but
> children of dune is not.  i want to add [dune_3]_ to the front of all of
> the children of dune mp3 files.
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