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From: mcdaniel@adi.com (Tim McDaniel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: How to do mv *.xyz *.abc in shell script??
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Date: 7 Sep 90 15:00:28 GMT
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In-reply-to: lrb@rrivax.rri.uwo.ca's message of 7 Sep 90 06:53:50 GMT


This is from Dan LaLiberte of the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.  I've used it for years.  The conversion to
Bourne-shell syntax should be obvious.  Usage is like
	rename 's/\.xyz$/abc/' *.xyz

#! /bin/csh -f
#/* Written  7:36 pm  May 29, 1988 by liberte@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu in
# uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu:comp.sources.d */
# Here is my rename script.
#
# Dan LaLiberte
# liberte@a.cs.uiuc.edu
# uiucdcs!liberte
#
# ---
#
# rename files with a sed command.  File names may have spaces in them.

if ($#argv < 2) then
	echo "Usage: rename sed-command file ..."
	exit (1)
endif
set command = "$1"
shift
set noglob
while ($#argv > 0)
	set name = ($argv[1])
	shift
	set newname = `echo "$name" | sed -e "$command"`
	if ($status != 0) exit 1
	echo "mv -i $name $newname"
	mv -i "$name" "$newname"
end
exit 0

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