On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:07:16AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:03:40AM +0800, lina wrote:
> > mv *.txt *.pdf
> >
> > can it be done * way?
> >
> > all the *.txt in current directory?
>
> Yes. Checkout the rename(1) command. It comes from Perl, and can be used
> for exactly that. Or, you could write a simple for-loop:
>
> for FILE in *.txt; do mv $FILE.txt $FILE.pdf; done
>
> You have options.
Actually, my for-loop is bad. This is what you get for typing something
without testing.
for FILE in *.txt; do mv "$FILE" "$(basename $FILE .txt).pdf"; done
That's better. And this time, it was actually tested. :)
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