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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Copying Multiple Files
Message-ID: <8210@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 26 May 90 04:05:37 GMT
References: <23368@adm.BRL.MIL> <16512@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
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In article <16512@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> pfalstad@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul John Falstad) writes:
: 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? 
: 
: There is an easy way, but unfortunately it involves a csh script.

Well, not necessarily.  On our system it happens you can just say

    copy 's/foo/bar/' foo.*

The copy script is just like the Perl rename script mentioned a while back:

#!/usr/bin/perl
$op = shift;
for (@ARGV) {
    $was = $_;
    eval $op;
    die $@ if $@;
    system "cp $was $_" unless $was eq $_;
}

Perlophobes could probably whip one up in some other language.  Or more
likely, some unholy combination of languages...   :-)

Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov