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I have a large folder of .m4b audio books which in their current format won't play on my Android phone. However they do work fine if they are renamed to .m4a



Is there a quick method or terminal command that can rename every .m4b file in a folder to .m4a? There is no need for any conversion of the files, simply renaming the file extension works perfectly fine.


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This will do the job for you.



rename 's/.m4b$/.m4a/' *.m4b



For a test run you can use this command:



rename 's/.m4b$/.m4a/' *.m4b -vn



-v means "verbose" and it will output the names of the files when it renames them.



-n will do a test run where it won't rename any files, But will show you a list of files that would be renamed.


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