Copying Multiple Files

[Tapani Tarvainen]

In article <23368 at adm.BRL.MIL> rose at baby.swmed.utexas.edu (Rose Oguz) writes:
>The original files have the same root name and different extensions.  How
>can I copy them to files with another root name while keeping the
>extensions? 

Just for fun, here's yet another way:

ls foo.* | sed 's/foo\(.*\)/mv foo\1 bar\1/' | sh

Just about any such conversion can be done this way, although
the command can get rather messy (nice way to convince novices
that you're a *nix guru ...)
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Tapani Tarvainen    (tarvaine at jyu.fi, tarvainen at finjyu.bitnet)