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From: lew@gsg.UUCP (Paul Lew)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: simple question about mv
Keywords: mv rename VMS DOS
Message-ID: <294@gsg.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 89 03:16:48 GMT
References: <18217@adm.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: lew@gsg.UUCP (Paul Lew)
Organization: General Systems Group, Salem, NH
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In article <18217@adm.BRL.MIL> DEG41560@ua1vm.ua.edu (Rob Smith) writes:
>
>						   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
>
>what does?  I'm under Ultrix 2.2.  I'm doing it by hand, but I'd like to
>be able to do wild card renames, ala DOS.

I assume you are using Csh, add the following in your .cshrc:

	alias	ren	'set noglob; rename \!*; unset noglob'

You can then issue command like:

	$ ren *.flip *.flop

Rename is a shell script for the exercise of the readers.  I can mail it
to those who dont want to reinvent the wheel.  If enough interest, I will
post it to comp.sources.misc.
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