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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!horga!reswi!knipp!elmar
  3. From: elmar@knipp.en.open.de (Elmar Knipp)
  4. Message-ID: <1992Nov10.085217.11699@knipp.en.open.de>
  5. Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 08:52:17 GMT
  6. Organization: Private/FRG
  7. Lines: 33
  8. Subject: Re: adding file suffix
  9. References: <721285254.AA00000@blkcat.UUCP> <1992Nov9.073245.1358@seer.demon.co.uk>
  10.  
  11. paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch) writes:
  12.  
  13. >In article <721285254.AA00000@blkcat.UUCP>  
  14. >David.Gursky@p394.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (David Gursky) writes:
  15. >> How about moving them all into a single sub-directory, opening a  
  16. >terminal shell,
  17. >> moving to the aforementioned directory, and using a command to the  
  18. >effect of "mv
  19. >> * *.tiff"
  20.  
  21. >Bad move.  This is an excellent way to lose a lot of files.  Please use  
  22. >one of the foreach methods described earlier.
  23.  
  24. In comp.sources there exist a program called "ren". It just
  25. does the work.
  26.  
  27. >Paul
  28. >-- 
  29. >Paul Lynch
  30. >P & L Systems                   (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
  31. >Tel: (0494)671501                      paull@cix.compulink.co.uk
  32. >Fax: (0494)680228                       76711.451@compuserve.com
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