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Article #1089Re: How to do mv *.xyz *.abc in shell script??
From: Lance R. Bailey
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 1990 13:26
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 1990 13:26
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In article <975@ria.ccs.uwo.ca>, lrb@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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Lance R. Bailey, Systems Manager | Robarts Research Institute
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!rrivax.rri.uwo.ca!lrb From: lrb@rrivax.rri.uwo.ca (Lance R. Bailey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: How to do mv *.xyz *.abc in shell script?? Summary: TYPO Message-ID: <977@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> Date: 7 Sep 90 13:26:19 GMT References: <5569@minyos.xx.rmit.oz> <975@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> Sender: news@ria.ccs.uwo.ca Reply-To: lrb@rrivax.rri.uwo.ca Organization: Robarts Research Institute -- London Canada Earth Lines: 16 News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4