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Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 11:52:49 -0700
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga <atabraga@bico-de-lacre.iqm.unicamp.br>
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Subject: Re: renaming files
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* Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga <atabraga@bico-de-lacre.iqm.unicamp.br> [000518 11:34] wrote:
> Try anything like this:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> @change='ls *.orig';
> foreach $orig (@change){
> 	chop($orig);
> 	$new=$orig;
> 	$new =~ s/orig/new/g;
> 	rename ($orig,$new);
> }

Well, I'm not sure what the point of this post is, but:

for i in *.orig ; do echo $i $i ; done | sed 's/orig$/new/' | xargs -n 2 mv

works in borne.

:)

-Alfred


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