rename file extentions ...

I wanted to rename all .txt file extensions as .html

$rename s/\.html/.txt/ *.html

Oh, also, this isn't a "standard Unix(TM) command, but it does come with most Perl installations that I know of and Perl is on most Unix machines that I know of.

Also i tried for loop :

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

But this renames a file file1.txt as file1.txt.html

anyone know how get avoid .html added after .txt ?

Try this :

for i in "${i%.txt}"; do mv "$i" "${i%.txt}".html; done