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From: moss@BRL.MIL (VLD/VMB)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re:  simple question about mv
Message-ID: <18230@adm.BRL.MIL>
Date: 27 Jan 89 20:45:54 GMT
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< 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. The following does not
< work
< 
<    mv *.flip *.flop
Well, this should work under a Bourne shell:
$ for i in *.flip
> do	mv $i `basename $i .flip` .flop
> done
$
-moss