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I want to replace the ".jpeg" extension with ".jpg" in all image files in a folder. What bash command should I use to do this?

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To replace the ".jpeg" extension with ".jpg" in images files in a folder, you can use the "mv" command with the "for" loop.

  • "cd" to the folder where you have kept your image files.
  • run the following command on the terminal.

for file in $(ls *.jpeg);  do mv "$file" "${file%.*}.jpg" ; done


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