Date: 09 Jan 2001 15:15:32 -0600 From: Tim Ayers <tayers@bridge.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: A simple shell question, How do i rename multiple files? Message-ID: <k884bf63.fsf@tim.bridge.com> In-Reply-To: "Peter Brezny"'s message of "Tue, 9 Jan 2001 15:41:31 -0800" References: <003101c07a95$b24117a0$46010a0a@sysadmininc.com>
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>>>>> "P" == Peter Brezny <peter@sysadmin-inc.com> writes:
P> I've got a bunch of files all ending in the same extension (somename.xxx)
P> I want to rename all of them to just (somename)
P> I've tried
P> mv *.xxx *
This is a surprisingly hard thing to do in UNIX. I don't think there's
a way to do it with 'mv'. Here's how to do it with a Perl
one-liner .
!!!Be sure to change the 'xxx' _in both places_ to whatever your
extension is!!!
perl -e'for (@ARGV) {($a)=/(.*)\.xxx/; rename $_, $a or die $!}' *.xxx
HTH,
Tim Ayers (tayers@bridge.com)
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