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From: woods@hao.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Renaming groups of files
Message-ID: <719@hao.UCAR.EDU>
Date: Fri, 5-Jun-87 16:43:14 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  5 16:43:14 1987
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Summary: Quick-and-dirty C-shell method

In article <2271@calmasd.GE.COM> jmm@calmasd.UUCP (James Moore) writes:
>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

  You can take advantage of the dot being there if you are a C-shell user
(there might be a similar trick in the Bourne shell, I don't know).

foreach f (a.*)
mv $f b.$f:e
end

The :e modifier on a variable substitution takes the "extension", i.e. the
part after the last dot.

--Greg
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