From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Fri Feb  4 08:28:12 2005
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB68716A4CE
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Fri,  4 Feb 2005 08:28:12 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from orthanc.st.hmc.edu (orthanc.ST.HMC.Edu [134.173.56.118])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83B7D43D1F
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Fri,  4 Feb 2005 08:28:10 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from mac@orthanc.st.hmc.edu)
Received: by orthanc.st.hmc.edu (Postfix, from userid 1001)
	id E07DA6165; Fri,  4 Feb 2005 00:28:14 -0800 (PST)
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 00:28:14 -0800
From: Mac Mason <mac@cs.hmc.edu>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <20050204082813.GA4160@orthanc.st.hmc.edu>
Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
References: <20050204082350.17779.qmail@web51610.mail.yahoo.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1;
	protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v"
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20050204082350.17779.qmail@web51610.mail.yahoo.com>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i
Subject: Re: How will I rename every file in a directory to their filenames
	appending anything?
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 08:28:12 -0000


--Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Best handled with a shell loop, offhand:

  % for file in *.mp3 ; do mv $file $file.old ; done

Modifying to suit your tastes.

    --Mac

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 12:23:50AM -0800, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote:
> Example.
> I would want to rename every file that ends in .mp3 to
> their filename with appended .old.
>=20
> so that, test.mp3 will be renamed test.mp3.old?
> my initial command would then be:
>=20
> ls |grep mp3 |xargs -J # mv #..[this part is what
> trying to figure out]
>=20
> How will I tell the mv that its arguments would be the
> output of ls and append something like ".old" to it?
> ~
>=20
>=20
> Thanks!
>=20
>=20
>=20
> =09
> 	=09
> __________________________________=20
> Do you Yahoo!?=20
> Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we.=20
> http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o=
rg"
>=20

--=20
Julian "Mac" Mason                            mac@cs.hmc.edu
Computer Science '06                          (909)-607-3129
Harvey Mudd College                     =20

--Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Disposition: inline

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD)

iD8DBQFCAzId1AphoTGXiN0RArYeAJ9YvZhLkqyy4iEfv0AynG1LJySkBgCgjU2r
zT/kxaeNWaWTpahteu4OW2k=
=logQ
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v--