Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 15:28:48 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.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: <20010109152847.A5312@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <003101c07a95$b24117a0$46010a0a@sysadmininc.com>; from "Peter Brezny" on Tue Jan 9 15:41:31 GMT 2001 References: <003101c07a95$b24117a0$46010a0a@sysadmininc.com>
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In the last episode (Jan 09), Peter Brezny said: > 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 greatest tool for this (or any file renaming) job is ports/misc/mmv. Install it and run mmv "*.xxx" "=1" It'll even warn you about filename conflicts if they occur. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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