On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 04:17:36PM -0400, Brian Ashe wrote: > Wednesday, September 4, 2002, 3:59:19 PM, you textually orated: > > BL> I am trying to rename a bunch of files with extension .inc to .php > BL> in one fell-swoop. Is there a set of commands I can pipe to each > BL> other to do this like: > > BL> ls *.inc | xargs .... > > BL> or do I need to do a for loop.
A for loop is certainly one way: for i in $(ls *inc); do mv $i `basename $i inc`php; done unset i > man rename But obviously not the best or easiest way. How is it I've used *nix for all these years and never heard of this command? -- They hang the man and flog the woman / That steal the goose from off the common, But let the greater villain loose / That steals the common from the goose. - English folk poem, circa 1764 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list