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Article #3349Re: adding file suffix
From: Mike Matthews
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 02:24
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 02:24
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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" YOW! You've got the right idea, but 'mv * *.tiff' will definitely not work. The shell will expand that command out to mv file1 file2 file3 .... filen (the *.tiff will presumably give no matches) so you've just renamed all of your filse to the last one. Kaboom. Or, if mv were smart, it would complain that filen isn't a directory. But I don't think mv is that smart (and I don't care to find out at this moment). ------ Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted) ------ Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired. -- R. Geis
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!ames!haven.umd.edu!umd5!oberon.umd.edu!matthews From: matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: adding file suffix Message-ID: <16938@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 12 Nov 92 02:24:04 GMT References: <721285254.AA00000@blkcat.UUCP> Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu Organization: /etc/organization Lines: 26