find . -name "*.txt" -exec ls {} \; | xargs -n1 -I{} sh -c '

How to rename all the files in a folder having specific
extension?
Example: I have some files with extension (.txt) in a folder
name 'Test'. I have to rename all the .txt files in a test
and its subdirectories to .my extension.

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find . -name "*.txt" -exec ls {} \; | xargs -n1 -I{} sh -c 'mv "{}" `echo "{}"|basename "{}" .txt`.my'

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