Need a file renaming facility

Chris Reimer ctr at Stride.COM
Thu May 5 04:30:15 AEST 1988


In article <3564 at fluke.COM> inc at tc.fluke.COM (Gary Benson) writes:
>
>    QT.1.r	   QT.4.r	       QT.A.r
>    Qt.1.r.pre	   QT.4.r.pre	       QT.A.r.pre
>
>Now I want to rename all those ".pre" files to the same name without ".pre".

Try:
	foo% foreach i ( `ls *.pre | sed 's/.pre$//'` )
	? echo "Moving ${i}..."
	? mv ${i}.pre $i
	? end

Obviously (I hope), this must be run under csh.  Enjoy!

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