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Re: mv multiple files w/wildcard



On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 01:20:02PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> I have a number of subdirectories where I have files with - such as 
> name - title.txt and I wish to convert them to:
> name: title.txt

If this isn't just a one-time thing (or perhaps even if it is) you should
check out the mmv package.

mmv
"* - *" "#1: #2"
^D

and you're done.

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