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From: jmm@calmasd.GE.COM (James Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Renaming groups of files
Message-ID: <2271@calmasd.GE.COM>
Date: Thu, 4-Jun-87 14:45:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: calmasd.2271
Posted: Thu Jun  4 14:45:54 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jun-87 06:48:00 EDT
Reply-To: jmm@calmasd.UUCP (James Moore)
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Organization: Calma Company, San Diego
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What's the best way to go about renaming groups of files
like:

a.a
a.b
a.c
a.d

To:

b.a
b.b
b.c
b.d

Or the same thing without the dot?  We'd also like to be
able to add a suffix and a prefix to any group of files.

Thanks,

James