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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 17:46:25 -0600
From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov>
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Subject: Re: multiple files
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hmmm wrote:
> how can i rename multiple files w/o doing it 1-by-1?
> ??? (sh shell)

for f in *.tar.gz; do mv $f `basename $f .tar.gz`.tgz; done

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Sean Kelly                          
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory    kelly@fsl.noaa.gov
Boulder Colorado USA                http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/