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With regexes you can put a capturing group and refer to it in your action (i.e. \1). Is there something similar for when glob is used in bash?
Say I have files named ‘file1’, ‘file2’, ‘file3’, and I want to rename them to ‘foo1’, ‘foo2’, ‘foo3’. I’d like to do something like this:
mv file(?) foo\1
is that possible?
You’re looking for batch renaming. There are a lot of solutions here on stackoverflow. Here is one example