Re: [SLUG] Utility challenge

From: Brian Coyle (brianc@magicnet.net)
Date: Thu Jul 05 2001 - 23:11:20 EDT


Ed Centanni wrote:
>
> What's the best way -- either by command line or a shell script -- to
> change a group of files names. EX. change all the files with a
> specific extension to another name: *.jpeg to *.JPG
>
> mv just doesn't seem to cut it.
> Ed.

How 'bout:

$ for f in *.jpeg ; do mv $f $(basename $f jpeg)JPG ; done
 
note there is NO DOT in the mv/basename component since basename
strips the suffix, but not the dot...

HTH!

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