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- From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
- Subject: Re: adding file suffix
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.073245.1358@seer.demon.co.uk>
- Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk
- Organization: P & L Systems
- References: <721285254.AA00000@blkcat.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 07:32:45 GMT
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- In article <721285254.AA00000@blkcat.UUCP>
- David.Gursky@p394.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (David Gursky) writes:
- > How about moving them all into a single sub-directory, opening a
- terminal shell,
- > moving to the aforementioned directory, and using a command to the
- effect of "mv
- > * *.tiff"
-
- Bad move. This is an excellent way to lose a lot of files. Please use
- one of the foreach methods described earlier.
-
- Paul
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