Hi, that doesn't seem t owork.  I cpied and pasted exactly waht you wrote, bu t 
then again I have never used Termianl before.

Thanks,

Harry

On Aug 19, 2012, at 8:26 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote:

> You should be able to use a basic shell loop like this:
> 
> for i in *.bks; do mv "$i" "${i/.bks}".zip; done
> 
> This will go through a directory of files, find all the ones that match 
> anything.bks and use the move command to change it from the current name to 
> the same name with .bks replaced by .zip.
> 
> CB
> 
> On 8/19/12 5:54 PM, Harry Hogue wrote:
>> Hi, everyone,
>> 
>> I have many .bks files via Bookshare that I would like to rename as .zip 
>> files.  Someone suggested doing this via Terminal, but I'm not sure how to 
>> go about this.
>> 
>> Also, when I try to associate the .bks files with The Unarchiver by right 
>> clicking and choosing, "Open with…" then selecting "Other…" I check the box 
>> for "Always open this file type using this application, but the option does 
>> not hold.  Does anyone know why this might be?  has anyone else experienced 
>> this?
>> 
>> Thanks for any help, guys.
>> 
>> Take care,
>> 
>> Harry
>> 
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