Re: adding file suffix

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From: Elmar Knipp
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 08:52

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paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch) writes:

>In article <721285254.AA00000@blkcat.UUCP>  
>David.Gursky@p394.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (David Gursky) writes:
>> How about moving them all into a single sub-directory, opening a  
>terminal shell,
>> moving to the aforementioned directory, and using a command to the  
>effect of "mv
>> * *.tiff"

>Bad move.  This is an excellent way to lose a lot of files.  Please use  
>one of the foreach methods described earlier.

In comp.sources there exist a program called "ren". It just
does the work.

>Paul
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