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 >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
