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From: lm@cottage.WISC.EDU (Larry McVoy)
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Subject: Re: Renaming groups of files
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Date: Fri, 5-Jun-87 12:44:55 EDT
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In article <2271@calmasd.GE.COM> jmm@calmasd.UUCP (James Moore) writes:
>What's the best way to go about renaming groups of files

Boy, do I have a deal for you:  if what you want is to do stuff like

% mov *.c *.c++ 

or 

% mv a.* b.*

or anything similar, I have written just such a tool.  It uses the regex
stuff that was posted a while ago and forks off a bunch of mv's to do the
work (a little slow, I know, but reasonable).  It was inspired by something
called "mved.sh" that was too slow to be really useful.  I'll mail you the 
source, if I get any other requests, I'll post to net.sources (or whatever
it's called these days).


Larry McVoy 	        lm@cottage.wisc.edu  or  uwvax!mcvoy