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From: "Pietralla, Siegfried P" <siegfried.pietralla@eds.com>
To: "'John Mills'" <john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu>,
	Maciej Szewczyk <rodion@pirx.9lo.lublin.pl>
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Subject: RE: files to files with .txt
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Mills [mailto:jmmills@telocity.com]
> Sent: Friday, 2 August 2002 12:07
> To: Maciej Szewczyk
> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: files to files with .txt
> 
> 
> Hello -
> 
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Maciej Szewczyk wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I have about 1000 files.
> > ls -1
> > 1
> > 2
.
.
.
> > And now I must have 1000 files with .txt ->
> > ls -1
> > 1.txt
> > 2.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

i've found that the easiest ( and least typing ) way to check stuff like
this is to :

for i in * ; do echo mv $i $i.txt ; done

to see what you're going to get, then just append " | sh " ;

for i in * ; do echo mv $i $i.txt ; done | sh

to execute it.

regards,
siegfried.

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