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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!juliet!news
- From: drew@fnbc.com (Drew Davidson)
- Subject: Re: adding file suffix
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.215031.5855@fnbc.com>
- Sender: news@fnbc.com
- Reply-To: drew@fnbc.com
- Organization: First National Bank Of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
- References: <1992Nov7.175558.3483@macadam.com>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 92 21:50:31 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- In article <1992Nov7.175558.3483@macadam.com> hfp@macadam.com (Hal Fox-Palmer)
- writes:
- > I just transfered about 200 Mac tiff files from a Mac HD to my NeXT HD.
- > Of course they show up just like text files which I just add the .tiff
- > suffix and everthing is fine. But I don't want to change them all by hand
- > so the QUESTION is; is there a neat UNIX thing that will allow me to
- > batch them all with the .tiff suffix ??
- >
- > THANKS
- >
- > Hal Fox-Palmer MACadam Computers
- > hfp@macadam.com
-
- Put them all in a single directory, open Terminal (you should get csh by
- default). Type:
-
- foreach file (*)
- mv $file $file.tiff
- end
-
- and voila! your files are now TIFF.
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- | Drew Davidson | "Never ask a programmer if he'll have |
- | Software Guy | another cup of coffee because it's |
- | First National Bank of Chicago | nobody's damn business how much he's |
- | drew@fnbc.com (NeXTmail) | already had!" - me |
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