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From: lrb@rrivax.rri.uwo.ca (Lance R. Bailey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: How to do mv *.xyz *.abc in shell script??
Summary: TYPO
Message-ID: <977@ria.ccs.uwo.ca>
Date: 7 Sep 90 13:26:19 GMT
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In article <975@ria.ccs.uwo.ca>, lrb@rrivax.rri.uwo.ca (Lance R. Bailey) writes...
> 
># changing *foo to *bar
>for i in *foo
>do
>    j=`echo $i | sed -e 's/foo/bar/'`
should read
     j=`echo $i | sed -e 's/foo$/bar/'`
                               ^<---missing dollar sign to bind to end of string
>    mv $i $j
>done
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