Re: OT: Wildcard renaming of files

[csj@mindgate.net]

Michael Abraham Shulman wrote:
> "csj" == csj  <csj@mindgate.net> writes:
> 
> csj> I have a bunch of files I want to rename from .html to .htm. Is
> csj> there I way to rename them all at once?
> 
> $ mmv '*.html' '#1.htm'

Thanks to everybody that replied. I settled for the program "mmv." It's
relatively simple (read, idiot-proof). It even works on my Mandrake (courtesy
of alien).
  
Martin Fluch wrote:
> A little bit bash programming...
> 
> for $i in *.html ; do mv "$i" "${i:0:${#tmp}-1}" ; done
> 
> Yes, I know, that this is quite cryptic ... but unfortunately I'm to tired
> to explain it ... I've need some sleep :-)
> 
> Nevertheless it should work. Try 'man bash' for more information, but it
> is long...

I couldn't get any of the scripts (Martin, Colin Watson) to work. The error
message has me stumped.

"script.txt: `$i': not a valid identifier"