I just copy pasted the command from my shell window :) since the files
are under version control (Hg) I had to use 'hg mv'

Cheers,

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 10:13 AM, MohanR <mohan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 08:05 +0530, Pratap Chakravarthy wrote:
>> $ for i in *.css; do hg mv "$i" "${i/.css}".tss ; done
>
> do we need 'mercury' to rename a file? Isn't this just 'mv' instead of
> 'hg mv'?
>
> Above command line is specific to renaming multiple files under
> 'mercury'.
>
> We can rename multiple files using another method,
>
> $ for FILE in *.css; do mv "${FILE}" "${FILE%.css}.tss"; done
>
> Thanks,
> Mohan R
>
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