Rename files using a regex with bash [duplicate]

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If you are on a linux, check special rename command which would do just that – renaming using regular expressions.

rename 's/^images\/(.+)/test\/$1.png/s' images/*.png

Otherwise, write a bash cycle over the filenames as catwalk suggested.

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