mass renaming

[Jeffrey Pyne]

My favorite way to do this (in (pd)ksh) is:

for file in *.doc
do
	mv $file `echo $file | sed -e 's/\.doc$/\.txt/'`
done

There are 1001 ways to skin a cat, though.

-----Original Message-----
From: Don Harrop [mailto:don@nis4u.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 3:38 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: mass renaming


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?

Don


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