It may be awkward but it's no use to ruin a perfect system for just one usecase. For what it's worth, zsh provides a capable renamer tool called zmv. An example

It may be awkward but it's no use to ruin a perfect system for just one usecase. For what it's worth, zsh provides a capable renamer tool called zmv. An example: zmv -W '*.txt' '*.markdown' And of course there are tools like rename(1) that work regardless of the shell used.