On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
The basename command is executed and the result is placed on the
command line. What you are running is:
find -name "*.c" -exec echo {} \;
Thank you. I should have figured that out.
Why don't you want to use a script? That's the logical way to do it.
If I made a full-out script myself, I'll have to remake it everywhere I
go.
Why? Write one script that works everywhere.
I'll still have to copy it everywhere, since it isn't standard.
Write a script to do that. ;)
...
Also, you don't need basename; it's an external command (i.e.,
slow) which the shell replaces with built-in parameter expansion.
for f in *.cpp
do
mv "$f" "${f%.cpp}.c"
done
Thanks. That '%' syntax will take getting used to, though.
If you do any amount of shell scripting, learn the POSIX parameter
expansions. They make scripts MUCH faster.
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Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
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