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#--- Commandline history substitution
* Replace old by new in prevous command
^old^new
^old^new is equivalent to !!:s/old/new
* Replace globally
!!:gs/old/new
#--- Batch renaming file
* Rename something001.txt to 001.txt, something002.txt to 002.txt...
for f in *.txt; do mv "$f" "${f#something}";done
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