On 11/7/05, m ike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > n=0; for old in `ls -1 *.txt`; do ((n+=1)); s=`printf '%04d' $n`;
> > new=${old/.txt/--$s.txt}; mv -vi $new; done
>
> some nifty alterations for GNU bash, version 3.00.0(1)-release
> (i586-suse-linux)
>
> adding a percent symbol, as in
>
> ${old/%.txt/--$s.txt};
>
> forces matching at the end
I suppose this is good in case you have files named foo.txt.txt
> while adding an extra slash, as in
>
> ${old//.txt/--$s.txt};
>
> makes it global
carl
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