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Date:      Tue, 24 Sep 1996 17:46:25 -0600
From:      Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov>
To:        hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: multiple files
Message-ID:  <324872D1.3CDF@fsl.noaa.gov>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.960924203341.562B-100000@hmmm.alaska.net>

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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

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



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