From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: Fri Jan 30 2004 - 11:25:10 EST
Not quite a single command, but fairly simple...
for FileName in `ls *.txt`
do
mv $FileName ${FileName%.txt}.xyz
done
-- Simon Green Altria ITSC Europe Ltd AIX-L Archive at https://new-lists.princeton.edu/listserv/aix-l.html New to AIX? http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/redbooks.nsf/portals/UNIX N.B. Unsolicited email from vendors will not be appreciated. Please post all follow-ups to the list. > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Monroe [mailto:mark.monroe@FORMSANDSUPPLY.COM] > Sent: 30 January 2004 16:01 > To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU > Subject: Renaming/Moving a Group of Filenames > > > I need help with something that I think is very simple. My > mind is over thinking the process and I cant seem to think of > any easy way to accomplish something. > > I have a several files in a directory such as this: > > test001.txt > test002.txt > test003.txt > test004.txt > > I want to rename the extension on the whole list to be > something different like this: > > test001.xyz > test002.xyz > test003.xyz > test004.xyz > > Is there an easy way with the cp or mv command to take > test*.txt and create the new files as test*.xyz?
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