Rename multiple files in Unix

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Published on 2009-07-06T11:21:39Z Indexed on 2010/04/10 17:53 UTC
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There are multiple files in a directory that begin with prefix fgh, for example:

fghfilea
fghfileb
fghfilec

I want to rename all of them to begin with prefix jkl. Is there a single command to do that instead of renaming each file individually?

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