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From: eiger@unigs.CH (Eiger Richard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: simple question about mv
Message-ID: <120@unigs.CH>
Date: 8 Feb 89 21:49:28 GMT
References: <18216@adm.BRL.MIL>, <210@libove.UUCP>
Organization: UNIGS Switzerland
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A simple way to solve the often found problem of renaming some files
suffixes can be solved as follows (at least under UNIX V):

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

which will rename all files *.flip in such with the extension .flop.
The command basename can be used for other tasks as well. Please check the
user's manual (1).

Best luck         Richard Eiger