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From: chet@cwns1.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: How to do mv *.xyz *.abc in shell script??
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Date: 7 Sep 90 17:55:36 GMT
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changing *foo to *bar

>in csh it's even easier
>
>foreach i ( *foo ) 
>   mv $i {$i:r}.bar
>end

In bash or ksh, it's just as easy:

cwns1$ ls
1.foo   2.foo   3.foo   4.foo   5.foo   6.foo   7.foo   8.foo   9.foo
cwns1$ for i in *.foo
> do
> mv $i ${i%.*}.bar
> done
cwns1$ ls
1.bar   2.bar   3.bar   4.bar   5.bar   6.bar   7.bar   8.bar   9.bar

Chet
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