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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
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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
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