simple question about mv

[Jay M. Libove]

>From article <18216 at adm.BRL.MIL>, by DEG41560 at ua1vm.ua.edu (Rob Smith):
> HI,
> 
>  I know this is simple, but then again, so am I.  What if I want to mv a
> bunch of files with the same suffix to another suffix. The following does
> not work
> 
>     mv *.flip *.flop
> 
> what does?  I'm under Ultrix 2.2.  I'm doing it by hand, but I'd like to
> be able to do wild card renames, ala DOS.
> 
>                                          Thanks,
>                                             Rob.

Some time back (the files are copyright 1986), mcvoy at cs.wisc.edu wrote
a pair of utilities called "move" and "copy" which would work as:

% ls *.flip
a.flip b.flip cc.flip dddd.flip e.flip
% move =.flip =.flop
mv a.flip a.flop
mv b.flip b.flop
mv cc.flip cc.flop
mv dddd.flip dddd.flop
mv e.flip e.flop
%

I am pretty sure that it is in the comp.sources.misc or comp.sources.unix
archives, but if you can't find it, then I can mail it or it can be
fetched off of my machine (by prior arrangement).
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