Hi!
In, DOS, everyone knows that typing:
copy *.txt *.doc
Will make a copy of all .txt files but with a new extension, .doc
Typing:
copy secret*.txt lies*.txt
Will make a copy of all .txt files starting with "secret" but with the name
"lies" instead of "secret".
etc, etc, etc.
The question is: How do you do this under Linux/bash?
I understand that things like "cp secret*.txt lies*.txt" will not do it
because of the way bash expands
wildcard specifications (and can even have undesirable results if you have a
folder matching the
pattern lies*.txt, but that's another story :)).
If DOS can do, I'm sure Linux can too!
Does anyone know how to do this?
Thanks,
George
