Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 16:39:18 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> To: hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: multiple files Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.960924163449.19000A-100000@harlie> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.960924203341.562B-100000@hmmm.alaska.net>
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On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, hmmm wrote: > how can i rename multiple files w/o doing it 1-by-1? > > ie, > > abc.tar.gz > abc.tgz > def.tar.gz > def.tgz > hij.tar.gz > hij.tgz Sounds like a job for perl. But that's too easy so here's a demented way do do it in shell script (sh) (assuming there are no other periods in the file names). for i in *.tar.gz; do mv $i $(echo $i | cut -f 1 -d . ).tgz done
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