Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 15:57:34 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com> To: Peter Brezny <peter@sysadmin-inc.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A simple shell question, How do i rename multiple files? Message-ID: <20010109155734.A11544@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <003101c07a95$b24117a0$46010a0a@sysadmininc.com>; from peter@sysadmin-inc.com on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 03:41:31PM -0800 References: <003101c07a95$b24117a0$46010a0a@sysadmininc.com>
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#!/bin/sh
for i in *
do
move $i ${i%.xxx}
done
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 03:41:31PM -0800, Peter Brezny wrote:
> I've got a bunch of files all ending in the same extension (somename.xxx)
>
> I want to rename all of them to just (somename)
>
> I've tried
> mv *.xxx *
>
> the same format with cp
>
> i've read the mv man page.
>
> This can't be that hard.
>
> TIA
>
> Peter Brezny
> SysAdmin Services Inc.
>
>
>
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