Re: adding file suffix

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From: Paul Lynch
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 22:27

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In article <1992Nov7.175558.3483@macadam.com> hfp@macadam.com (Hal  
Fox-Palmer) writes:
> I just transfered about 200 Mac tiff files from a Mac HD to my NeXT HD.
> Of course they show up just like text files which I just add the .tiff  
> suffix and everthing is fine. But I don't want to change them all by  
hand  
> so the QUESTION is;  is there a neat UNIX thing that will allow me to  
> batch them all with the .tiff suffix ??

foreach file (*)
mv $file $file.tiff
end

in a Terminal window.  Change the (*) thing to match all of your files; or  
write a Terminal Service to do it.

Paul
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