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From: drh@duke.cs.duke.edu (D. Richard Hipp)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: shell architecture (to glob or not to glob)
Message-ID: <669304840@juliet.cs.duke.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 91 14:00:42 GMT
References: <488@bria> <00086@meph.UUCP> <1407@sheol.UUCP>
Organization: Duke University Computer Science Dept.; Durham, N.C.
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In article <1407@sheol.UUCP> throopw@sheol.UUCP (Wayne Throop) writes:
>...[R]enaming groups of files is a common
>enough task that *some* tool (whather mv or not) ought to be around to
>handle it.

Try this from the Bourne shell (or equivalent):

ls *.x | sed -e 's/\.x//' | while read name; do mv $name.x $name.y; done;

A similar idiom will handle most problems that Mr. Throop describes.

Why is this in comp.arch?