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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Copying Multiple Files
Message-ID: <3133@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 2 Jun 90 10:48:43 GMT
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Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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In article <4a9c480e.12c9a@digital.sps.mot.com> chen@digital.sps.mot.com (Jinfu Chen) writes:
>I have yet to find a way in csh or bsh to do this simple task.

	#!/bin/sh
	#   change "FromPattern" "ToPattern" File...
	#   see sed(1) for an explanation of patterns
	From="$1"
	shift
	To="$1"
	shift
	for File
	    do
		mv "$File" "`echo "$File" | sed -e "s/$From/$To/"`"
	    done
	exit

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