On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 18:32, Bob Torres wrote: > Hi All, > > I recently transferred some MP3s from my MacOS desktop to my Debianppc > laptop. There are no file extensions for these mp3 files, so they're > kind worthless for xmms in Linux. > > On the Linux side, how would I go about adding extensions to these files > without doing it manually? In other words, is there something I could > pass at the command line to accomplish this for a whole directory of > files? I've been using Linux for three years or so now, and I've always > wanted to know how to do this...anyone care to educate me? I'm hoping > for something a little more substantive than "go learn sed (or whatever > program)," though learning by example usually works the best for me. ; ) for i in * ; do mv $i $i.mp3 ; done Or: for i in `find -type f | grep -v "\.mp3$"` ; do mv $i $i.mp3 ; done Untested, but should work... I think. Cheers -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net
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