Re: How do I change the extensions on a slew of files

[Larry Rosenman]

--On Friday, September 12, 2003 17:11:50 -0700 James Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 08:28:19PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:

from an sh type shell
for i in *.inc
do
z=`echo $i | sed -e "s/inc/htm/g"`
mv ${i} ${z}
done

(not tested, but should work.)

LER

What does it do with a file named

include.inc

z=`echo $i | sed -e "s/inc$/htm/g"`

is better, no?

Yep, and some other kind folks pointed this out.

Thanks,
LER

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