On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Paul Spicer <[email protected]>wrote:

> I have a folder of text files with no extension (named 101, 102, 103,
> etc...) and I wanted to add an extension of .tab to them. So, in terminal, I
> ran 'rename * *.tab *' and file 101 was deleted. Can anyone tell me why?
>

If you're using bash, the following should work:

for x in *; do mv "$x" "$x.tab"; done

Chris Lee
I.T. Manager
Lee Printing, Inc.
(904) 396-5715 x 225

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