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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu
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Subject: Re: Is the C-shell (csh) a bad shell?
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* Crist J. Clark <cristjc@earthlink.net> [000718 23:09] wrote:
> 
> But in the end, we agree. I still find tcsh is great for little
> command line jobs like,
> 
>   % foreach file ( pattern* )
>   > mv $file $file:r_old.$file:e
>   > endif

*cough*wussy*cough*

  for i in * ; do
    mv $i ${i%.*}_old.${i##*.}
  done

:)

-Alfred


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