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From: tarvaine@tukki.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Copying Multiple Files
Summary: how 'bout sed
Message-ID: <1990May26.182215.27766@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: 26 May 90 18:22:15 GMT
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Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
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In article <23368@adm.BRL.MIL> rose@baby.swmed.utexas.edu (Rose Oguz) writes:
>The original files have the same root name and different extensions.  How
>can I copy them to files with another root name while keeping the
>extensions? 

Just for fun, here's yet another way:

ls foo.* | sed 's/foo\(.*\)/mv foo\1 bar\1/' | sh

Just about any such conversion can be done this way, although
the command can get rather messy (nice way to convince novices
that you're a *nix guru ...)
-- 
Tapani Tarvainen    (tarvaine@jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)