Thankyou to all those that replied! ========================= Thanks, Ian Laurenson
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 13:44, Matthew Gregan wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:10:43PM +1200, Tim Wright wrote:
>
> > for i in *.txt ; do mv "$i" "${i%txt}old" ; done
> > (bash only)
>
> I think you'll find that particular parameter substitution is part of
> POSIX, i.e. all POSIX-compatible shells support it.
>
> Cheers,
> -mjg
