Re: [newbie] Renaming files...

2001-06-02 Thread David E. Fox
> I wonder how i can rename, for instance, *.mp3 to *.ogg files... You can't rename them - if you simply did that you would have a bunch of mp3 files with an 'ogg' extension, which is something I don't think you want. Converting them inside of a shell script would be the approach I'd take. mpg12

Re: [newbie] Renaming files...

2001-06-02 Thread Tim Holmes
The mv command will perform that function. For example, you take a JPEG named test.jpg and you want to name it background.jpg. The following command will do the trick for ya. mv test.jpg background.jpg It takes the test.jpg and moves it to the destination you specified. This of course works

[newbie] Renaming files...

2001-06-02 Thread Joan Tur
Hi! I wonder how i can rename, for instance, *.mp3 to *.ogg files... It was very easy with dos, win, os2 but under linux i don't know how 8-? Thanks! -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usua

Re: [newbie] renaming files

1999-04-11 Thread Kuraiken
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Ken wrote: > > > vacation01.jpg > > vacation02.jpg > > vacation03.jpg > > > > I want to rename just the vacation part to toronto**.jpg. toronto01.jpg, > > toronto02.jpg etc... > > for i in vacation*jpg; do > a=`echo $i |sed -e 's/vacatio

Re: [newbie] renaming files

1999-04-11 Thread Tom Varghese
On Sat, 10 Apr 1999 18:38:07 -0700, you wrote: > >I want to rename just the vacation part to toronto**.jpg. toronto01.jpg, >toronto02.jpg etc... > >What would I type to accomplishing this? Typing 'mv vacation01.jpg > >toronto01.jpg' for each file isn't fun either. My only other alternative >is

Re: [newbie] renaming files

1999-04-11 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Ken wrote: > vacation01.jpg > vacation02.jpg > vacation03.jpg > > I want to rename just the vacation part to toronto**.jpg. toronto01.jpg, > toronto02.jpg etc... for i in vacation*jpg; do a=`echo $i |sed -e 's/vacation/toronto/'` mv $i $a done LLaP bero

Re: [newbie] renaming files

1999-04-11 Thread Kuraiken
Ken wrote: > > I need some help renaming a bunch of files, about 350 in fact. They all > begin with vacation*.jpg > > example: > > vacation01.jpg > vacation02.jpg > vacation03.jpg > > I want to rename just the vacation part to toronto**.jpg. toronto01.jpg, > toronto02.jpg etc... > > What wo

[newbie] renaming files

1999-04-11 Thread Ken
I need some help renaming a bunch of files, about 350 in fact. They all begin with vacation*.jpg example: vacation01.jpg vacation02.jpg vacation03.jpg I want to rename just the vacation part to toronto**.jpg. toronto01.jpg, toronto02.jpg etc... What would I type to accomplishing this? Typin