Need a file renaming facility

[Rob McMahon]

In article <784 at stride.Stride.COM> ctr at xpiinc.uu.net (Christian Reimer) writes:
>In article <3564 at fluke.COM> inc at tc.fluke.COM (Gary Benson) writes:
>>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

Or even

	foo% foreach i ( *.pre )
	? echo "Moving ${i}..."
	? mv $i $i:r
	? end

Rob
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