On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Cameron Simpson wrote: > Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 15:51:10 +1100 > From: Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Change file extension using bash (OT) > > On 23:39 11 Feb 2002, Reuben D Budiardja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | I need a bit of help with bash here. I try to create a script that would > | change the extension of files in directory. I have files like > | xxx.pc that I want a change to xxx.jpg, where xxx is numbers, in a directory. > | How can I do that using bash? > > for f in *.pc > do newname=`basename "$f" .bc`.jpg > mv -i "$f" "$newname" > done It seems that you try to work correctly for file names containing spaces, etc; if so, the results of basename should be protected from word split (I am also correcting mistyped ".bc")
for f in *.pc; do newname="`basename "$f" .pc`".jpg; mv -i "$f" "$newname"; done > > Of course that works in any Bourne shell, not just bash. Which is as it should be. > -- > Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ > If we want bash-only solution we can use a bit faster (no subprocessed created): for f in *.pc; do newname="${f%.pc}".jpg; mv -i "$f" "$newname"; done Best regards, Wojtek _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
