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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: PIPEs
Message-ID: <2217@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 11 Nov 90 19:35:47 GMT
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In <7025@sugar.hackercorp.com>, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> +For things like "move", I'd rather go to slices:
>
>> +	move {.*}.c \1.h
>
>In article <1990Nov7.235254.13959@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu> yarnall@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Ken Yarnall) writes:
>> Yeah, right.  That is much clearer...:-)
>
>OK, quick. How do you rename all whatever.c-or-h files to old.whatever.c-or-h
>with wildcards instead of slices?

Well, it probably _shouldn't work, but I just tried it with a few patterns, and
found that this one works fine:

mv *.(c|h) old.*

That's using the ARP 'move' command.

-larry

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