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

[Tim Wright]

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 13:04, Mike Beattie wrote:

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

slightly shorter is:

for i in *.txt ; do mv "$i" "${i%txt}old" ; done

(bash only)

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Tim Wright

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Department of Computer Science
University of Canterbury

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