[plug] Does anyone know how to change bulk filenames...

[Bevan Broun]

On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 11:02:17AM +0800, Matt Kemner wrote:
> try:
> 
> for FILE in *.txt
> do
> mv $FILE `echo $FILE|sed 's,\.txt$,\.doc'`
> done

This also how I do such things and its a very useful bit of scripting on
the commandline. Matt should have added that this is only for bourne
shell compatable shells. Wont work for tcsh, csh.

It gets really nice when you replace "in *.txt" with "in `SOME GOOD
COMMANDS | AND PIPES`


Bevan
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