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From: pete@violet.berkeley.edu (Pete Goodeve)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: PIPEs (really: Slices)
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Date: 14 Nov 90 00:19:51 GMT
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In  <570@cbmger.UUCP> (13 Nov),
Peter Kittel GERMANY (peterk@cbmger.UUCP) writes:
> [.......]
> But next question:
> Can you REPLACE parts of the filenames this way? Like:
>         text#?.german  -->  text#?.english
> This is the one I would have needed the last weeks several times.

Actually, yes!  I posted a similar example yesterday, but for your particular
job, I'd use:

        REN text#?^.german ^0.english

(The first '^' is the slice point -- you could have more than one --, and
'^0' refers to the first slice.)

                                            -- Pete --