From owner-freebsd-questions  Fri Jan 12 11:18:34 2001
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B0A437B404
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:18:15 -0800 (PST)
Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by ptavv.es.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f0CJICJ00835;
	Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:18:12 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <200101121918.f0CJICJ00835@ptavv.es.net>
To: peter@sysadmin-inc.com
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: A simple shell question, How do i rename multiple files? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jan 2001 15:41:31 PST."
             <003101c07a95$b24117a0$46010a0a@sysadmininc.com> 
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:18:12 -0800
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

Aside form Perl and shell scripts (often one line), the tool mmv
(/usr/ports/misc/mmv) can handle this sort of operation very nicely.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message