NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #26/NN_1992_26.iso/spool/comp/unix/question/12949

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From: [e-mail] (Kenneth Edwards 268-6500)
Subject: Re: How to rename a group of files with wild cards (* and ?)?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Organization: Calgary UNIX Users' Group
References: <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 03:15:28 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (John Reid) writes:
>[e-mail] (Yung-Jin Lee) writes:
>
>>Is there anyway to rename a group of files with
>>wild cards (* and ?)?  I've tried mv and cp and
>>I am not able to do this.
>
>To move a group of files called fred* in directory olddir to newdir try
>
>for file in `cd oldir ; ls fred*`
>do
>    mv "$olddir/$file" "$newdir"
>done

Well that would work, but I think it is easier.
To move a group of files called fred* in directory olddir to newdir try

mv olddir/fred* newdir

please tell us what shell you are using so we can give an appropriate
answer, however to rename a group of files in ksh - you do something like

for file in fred*.text
do
   mv $file ${file%.text}.txt     # renames all .text files to .txt
OR mv $file f.${file#project}     # renames all fred*.text files to f.*.text
OR mv $file `echo $file | tr "[a-z]" "[A-Z]"` # renames all fred* to FRED*
OR mv $file `expr $file 'fred\(.*\)\.text'`   # quite probably does bad stuff
OR whatever you should probably check first by generating the names before
you do the rename and using an echo in front of the mv until you like the
list of names you get
done

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