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From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re:  simple question about mv
Message-ID: <906@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jan 89 06:09:34 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Well, this should work under a Bourne shell:
>$ for i in *.flip
>> do	mv $i `basename $i .flip` .flop
...

Assuming, of course, that all the files are in the current directory,
since "basename" will not only strip off the ".flip", but will also
strip off all the directories leading up to the name (i.e., it will turn
"/usr/src/nemo/cigar.flip" into "cigar", not into
"/usr/src/nemo/cigar"). 

If your system has "dirname", which will strip off the last component of
the name and give you the directory in question, you can use that if
need be.