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From: nolan@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Michael C. Nolan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: simple question about mv
Summary: rename (1)
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Date: 29 Jan 89 07:07:44 GMT
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In article <18216@adm.BRL.MIL> DEG41560@ua1vm.ua.edu (Rob Smith) writes:
>
> I know this is simple, but then again, so am I.  What if I want to mv a bunch
>of files with the same suffix to another suffix. 

There is a program rename available by anonymous ftp from csli.stanford.edu 
in the directory pub/Gandalf.  It seems to work fine for me, and does what
you want and a bit more, like convert case, etc.  It looks like
rename suff1=suff2 *.suff1

-Mike

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