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From: ken@rochester.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Renaming groups of files
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Date: Fri, 5-Jun-87 22:02:45 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  5 22:02:45 1987
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I like to use sed in a shell stream, thus:

	ls a.* | sed 's/a\.\(.*\)/mv & b\.\1/' | sh

with other variations for renaming suffixes, middles, etc.

Yes, it is cryptic, but a really quick solution. A nice thing is
you can leave out the | sh the first time and then say !! | sh
when you see the commands generated are right. In csh, that is.

	Ken