mmv! That's what I've been looking for. :-) BTW, thanks for the perl script.
That's what I acutally used to do the job and it works very well!
Don
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> > I'm trying to rename a ton of files with a certain extension to another
> > extension type. If this is possible with the mv command I can't figure
> out
> > the syntax.. Anyone know how to do this?
>
> There is a command called mmv that you can get in various places (suse has
> an rpm of it)
> then all you do is:
> mmv "*.jpg" #1.gif
> and it would rename all your jpeg files to gifs. I highly recomend it.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
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