How to do mv *.xyz *.abc in shell script??
Lance R. Bailey
lrb at rrivax.rri.uwo.ca
Fri Sep 7 23:26:19 AEST 1990
In article <975 at ria.ccs.uwo.ca>, lrb at rrivax.rri.uwo.ca (Lance R. Bailey) writes...
>
># changing *foo to *bar
>for i in *foo
>do
> j=`echo $i | sed -e 's/foo/bar/'`
should read
j=`echo $i | sed -e 's/foo$/bar/'`
^<---missing dollar sign to bind to end of string
> mv $i $j
>done
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