On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 09:50:08AM +0000, Chris Davies wrote: > Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com> wrote: > > ./project1/bak/a.yml > > ./project1/bak/b.yml > > ./project2/bak/c.yml > > ./project2/bak/d.yml > > > I want to move the *.yml files into the corresponding parent directory. > > rename 's!(.*/)([^/]*)$!$1../$2!' project*/bak/*.yml Nice... I only just recently found out about rename, myself. Very convenient. > ;-) > Chris -- Joel Roth