On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 02:23 PM, Jan L. Peterson wrote:
How about something like this:
for f in auto-*; do cp $f targetdir/no$f done
Sorry, I guess auto and no auto was a bad example. What I really need to know is how to capture the number for use in a new filename. so auto-1 becomes bongo-1, and auto-2 becomes bongo-2, etc.
Grant
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