Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 01:48:17 -0500 From: James Kalmadge <kalmadg@banet.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: omething simple (sorry) Message-ID: <36E22131.2781E494@banet.net> References: <199903041306.NAA06501@primrose.csv.warwick.ac.uk>
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I don't know about mmv but 'basename' definitely won't work.
How about:
for file in *.txt
do
cp $file `echo $file | awk -F. '{print $1}'`.old
done
Put it in a script file if you want to re-use it later.
Mr M P Searle wrote:
>
> > Hi All
> >
> >
> > I have looked and I can't find how to move bulk files with wildcards
> >
> > in dos I would use copy *.txt *.old
> >
> >
> > What do I do in FreeBSD to mv ? cp ?
> >
>
> There's a utility 'mmv' in ports that does this kind of thing.
>
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