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From: merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: simple question about mv
Summary: small bugfix
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Date: 28 Jan 89 20:33:43 GMT
References: <18231@adm.BRL.MIL>
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In-reply-to: moss@BRL.MIL (VLD/VMB)

In article <18231@adm.BRL.MIL>, moss@BRL (VLD/VMB) writes:
| Well, this should work under a Bourne shell:
| $ for i in *.flip
| > do	mv $i `basename $i .flip` .flop
| > done
| $

Almost.  Don't try this at home, kiddies.  Remove the space before
".flop", or you'll end up with something very unintended.

Try this:

$ for i in *.flip; do mv $i `basename $i .flip`.flop; done

Presto-magico.
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