Unix Bash rename files using a regex

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I would like to rename all files from a folder using a regex(add a name to the end of name) and move to another folder.

It my opinion, it should be looking like this:

mv -v ./images/*.png ./test/*test.png, but it is not working.

Can anyone suggest me a solution?

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I also like the rename command that John T posted, but it's not available on all systems. This should work everywhere:

for i in *.png; do mv -v $i `basename $i .png`.test.png; done

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cd /home/user/myfiles ; cp --parents */*/*.jpg /home2/user/myfiles/

You have to cd first because if you do cp --parents /home/user/myfiles/... it will create those parents too, and you'll end up with /home2/user/myfiles/home/parents/myfiles/.

If you need a non-GNUish answer, the traditional unix method would be tar over a pipe.

cd /home/user/myfiles ; tar cf - */*/*.jpg | ( cd /home2/user/myfiles ; tar xf - )

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