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There's a rename (sometimes also called prename) program that's shipped with Perl. You can use it for this task: 

rename "s/\.xml$/.txt" *.xml

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Re^2: perl code to replace
by bart (Canon) on Feb 10, 2011 at 12:40 UTC
    And if you don't have it, it is on CPAN.
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