Rename and copy files

This is simple but just wanted to put this here.  I'm new to mac/linux so I need this to remember.

To rename a bunch of files with a suffix ".html" to ".txt" in the Mac Terminal, use this:

for file in *.html; do
    mv "$file" "`basename $file .html`.txt"
done

As you can see in the link below, "basename" takes the leading part of a string as the first parameter and then the rest of the string as the suffix.  In other words, the suffix does not need to be just the extension.

http://www.computerhope.com/unix/ubasenam.htm

Source of solution:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1224766/bash-rename-files/1225236#1225236