Re: Wildcards: What is the equiv to dos REN *.txt *.old

[Mike Beattie]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:03:08PM +1200, Warwick & Ian wrote:
> I maybe being thick and / or lazy but what is the easiest command line
> equivalent to DOS:
> 
> REN *.txt *.old

Nothing that 'simple'...

you want somthing like:

for i in *.txt;do mv $i $(echo $i | sed -e 's/txt$/old/');done

Mike.
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