Re: auto-change filenames

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On  5 Oct, Brian J. Stults wrote about "auto-change filenames"
> Could someone give me a sample script (perhaps bash or sed) to change a
> group of filenames from their original name to the same name preceeded
> by an exclamation point.  For example, changing the following filenames
> from:
> 
> test1.cnm
> test2.cnm
> 
> to 
> 
> !test1.cnm
> !test2.cnm
> 
> Thanks!
> 

Install the mmv package and read the man page, for your example above
the following should work.

mmv "*.cnm" "!#1.cnm"

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