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From: lmiller@aerospace.aero.org (Lawrence H. Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: How to do mv *.xyz *.abc in shell script??
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Date: 7 Sep 90 16:52:37 GMT
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One way to do this is to use basename.  Try something like this (for
you specific case of changing *.xyz to *.abc).

(This is a Bourne shell script.)

------------------------------ CUT HERE ------------------------------ 

for i in *.xyz
do
  a=`basename $i .xyz`
  echo moving $a.xyz to $a.abc
  mv $a.xyz $a.abc
done

Larry Miller
Aerospace Corporation
lmiller@aerospace.aero.org
213-336-5597