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From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Copying Multiple Files
Message-ID: <1990May25.113538.11790@investor.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 25 May 90 11:35:38 GMT
References: <23368@adm.BRL.MIL> <16512@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <207@taumetCOM> <1990May21.011549.8072@athena.mit.edu>
Reply-To: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA
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In article <1990May21.011549.8072@athena.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>In article <207@taumetCOM>, steve@taumetCOM (Stephen Clamage) writes:
>|> I don't get it.  Why not just:
>|> 
>|> 	cp   source_directory/foo.*   target_directory
>|> 
>|> Does your script do something the obvious command doesn't do?
>
>  This does not do what the original poster asked.  The poster asked: if
>she has a bunch of filenames with the same basename, e.g. foo.a, foo.b,
>foo.c, foo.d, etc., how would she go about renaming them all to bar.a,
>bar.b, bar.c, bar.d, etc.
>
Here is a start to getting there.  Somebody posted a rename script a
while back that does suffixes; eg, rename *.foo to *.bar.  I suspect it
could be modified to do the above.  Here is the script --

#!/bin/csh
#  script to change suffixes enmasse

if ( $#argv != 2 ) then
	echo "usage: rename from to"
	exit
endif

foreach i ( *.$argv[1] )
	mv $i $i:r.$argv[2]
end

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