Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 22:06:54 -0400 (EDT) From: John Mills <jmmills@telocity.com> To: Maciej Szewczyk <rodion@pirx.9lo.lublin.pl> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: files to files with .txt Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0208012201000.5158-100000@otter.mills-atl.com> In-Reply-To: <20020731230256.A19666@pirx.9lo.lublin.pl>
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Hello - On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Maciej Szewczyk wrote: > Hi, > I have about 1000 files. > ls -1 > 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 5 > 6 > 7 > ... > ... > 998 > 999 > 1000 > And now I must have 1000 files with .txt -> > ls -1 > 1.txt > 2.txt > 3.txt > ... > ... > 998.txt > 999.txt > 1000.txt DISCLAIMER - This is on-the-fly - you'll probably need to tune it and/or correct it. Of course you could just write it as a [bash] script. Get the form right _without_ the 'mv' line, and if possible save a copy of your directory before you munge the real files. $ ls > ../1000_files $ for FILENAME in `cat ../1000_files` > do > echo "Renaming $FILENAME to $FILENAME.txt" > mv $FILENAME $FILENAME.txt > done Renaming 001 to 001.txt .... $ - John Mills To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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