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Subject: Re: Basic mv question?
In-Reply-To: <36714876.A3B825A4@lundahl.com> from "James A. Taylor" at "Dec 11, 98 09:29:42 am"
To: jataylor@lundahl.com (James A. Taylor)
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 10:43:13 -0600 (CST)
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When you use more that 2 args on mv or cp, the
last one is the destination, the rest are source.

#!/bin/sh
for i in *.shtml
do
	j=`basename $i .shtml`
	mv $i $j.html
done


In a previous message, James A. Taylor said:
> I have a directory tree full of *.shtml files.
> I assumed that I could recursively rename all of
> the *.shtml files in that directory tree to *.html
> files.  When I tried I got a usage message and
> from what I can tell the FreeBSD commands
> mv and cp do not take wild cards.
> 
> Is this true?  Is it really true that I can't issue a
> command like mv *.shtml *.html?
> 
> Help!
> 
> James A. Taylor
> 
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