I would end up doing a for loop something like this:
foreach i ( *mp3) mv $i section$i echo $i end But you must have something else in mind. Dirk Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: % noartist]# ls notitle % _10.mp3 _13.mp3 _16.mp3 _19.mp3 _22.mp3 _25.mp3 _28.mp3 _3.mp3 % _6.mp3 _9.mp3 % _11.mp3 _14.mp3 _17.mp3 _20.mp3 _23.mp3 _26.mp3 _29.mp3 _4.mp3 % _7.mp3 track00.mp3 % _12.mp3 _15.mp3 _18.mp3 _21.mp3 _24.mp3 _27.mp3 _2.mp3 _5.mp3 % _8.mp3 % % What is the #rename command to rename all of these files with % section_*.mp3, [as in section_1.mp3 for track00.mp3] and so on? % I've been told this before but I wiped my email files and man page is a % bit obscure. % Thanks % % _______________________________________________ % EuG-LUG mailing list % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug ----- John Sechrest . Helping people use . computers and the Internet . more effectively . . Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . http://www.peak.org/~sechrest _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug