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From: molenda@msi.umn.edu (Jason Molenda)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: How to do mv *.xyz *.abc in shell script??
Message-ID: <1990Sep7.153055.6629@msi.umn.edu>
Date: 7 Sep 90 15:30:55 GMT
References: <5569@minyos.xx.rmit.oz> <975@ria.ccs.uwo.ca>
Organization: Minnesota Supercomputer Institute
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lrb@rrivax.rri.uwo.ca (Lance R. Bailey) writes:

>In article <5569@minyos.xx.rmit.oz>, rcoahk@chudich.co.rmit.oz (Alvaro Hui Kau) writes...
>>So, Is there anyone out there can help me on this problem?

># changing *foo to *bar
>for i in *foo
>do
>    j=`echo $i | sed -e 's/foo/bar/'`
>    mv $i $j

in csh it's even easier

foreach i ( *foo ) 
   mv $i {$i:r}.bar
end

Jason Molenda, Tech Support, Iris & News admin, Minnesota Supercomputer Inst
molenda@s1.msi.umn.edu