How to rename multiple folders in Linux using command line

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I am new to Linux programming and bash shell commands. I have a folder structure as dir1, dir2, dir3 and I would like to rename it as dir001, dir002, dir003. How do you rename multiple folders in Linux?

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Use a “for loop”.

for i in 1 2 3;do mv dir$i dir00$i;done

or

for i in $(seq 3);do mv dir$i dir00$i;done
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