Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!warwick!cudcv From: cudcv@daisy.warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Need a file renaming facility Message-ID: <539@sol.warwick.ac.uk> Date: 10 May 88 20:17:02 GMT References: <3564@fluke.COM> <784@stride.Stride.COM> Reply-To: cudcv@titania.warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon) Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK Lines: 22 In article <784@stride.Stride.COM> ctr@xpiinc.uu.net (Christian Reimer) writes: >In article <3564@fluke.COM> inc@tc.fluke.COM (Gary Benson) writes: >>Now I want to rename all those ".pre" files to the same name without ".pre". > >Try: > foo% foreach i ( `ls *.pre | sed 's/.pre$//'` ) > ? echo "Moving ${i}..." > ? mv ${i}.pre $i > ? end Or even foo% foreach i ( *.pre ) ? echo "Moving ${i}..." ? mv $i $i:r ? end Rob -- UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!warwick!cudcv PHONE: +44 203 523037 JANET: cudcv@uk.ac.warwick.cu ARPA: cudcv@cu.warwick.ac.uk Rob McMahon, Computing Services, Warwick University, Coventry CV4 7AL, England