Re: Renaming multiple extensions-file on unix..
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 09:28:03AM +0200, Emil Pedersen wrote:
> "Miranda, Joel Louie M" wrote:
> > I have this html pages and I just want to rename them all into *.php
> > Anyone have any ideas? Doing this in just one command? Or Just a script?
>
> Hi,
>
> you could install "mmv" (multiple mv) which is close to perfect for
> these things.
> One other way would be to run something like:
>
> for f in *html; do mv $f ${f//.html/.php}; done
>
> which should work if there's not to many files. Note that I think it
> requires bash though.
It does. "${f%.html}.php" doesn't.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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