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From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com>
To: Peter Brezny <peter@sysadmin-inc.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: A simple shell question, How do i rename multiple files?
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#!/bin/sh
for i in *
do
  move $i ${i%.xxx}
done

On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 03:41:31PM -0800, Peter Brezny wrote:
> I've got a bunch of files all ending in the same extension (somename.xxx)
> 
> I want to rename all of them to just (somename)
> 
> I've tried
> mv *.xxx * 
> 
> the same format with cp
> 
> i've read the mv man page.
> 
> This can't be that hard.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Peter Brezny
> SysAdmin Services Inc.
> 
> 
> 
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