tr from the command line

[Kevin Buettner]

On May 14,  8:40pm, Carl Parrish wrote:

> I've got a lot of files called *_log.  I want to change them all to
> *.log.  I *think* I want to use the tr command.  Can anyone give me
> the syntax?  my undertanding from the info and man files isn't
> working. 

Maybe something like this?

for f in *_log; do mv $f `echo $f | tr _ .`; done

However, I think using sed in this case might be better:

for f in *_log; do mv $f `echo $f | sed -e 's/_log$/.log/'`; done

Kevin