[SUMMARY] Script for changing file names

Wow that was quick, thanks for all the replys

Henrik had the first one that worked and I am still going through the
rest
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for f in *.blah; do mv $f `basename $f .blah`.txt; done

Thanks again
Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mortensen, Henrik [mailto:henrik.mortensen@csfb.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 12:48 PM
> To: David Baldwin
> Subject: RE: Script for changing file names
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> for f in *.blah; do mv $f `basename $f .blah`.txt; done
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Baldwin [mailto:dbaldwin@networkinsight.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 3:40 PM
> To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
> Subject: Script for changing file names
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> Hi,
> Does anyone have a script that can change file names in a directory
from
> *.blah to *.txt?
> Thanks in advance,
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> Dave Baldwin
> RHCE, NOC System Engineer
> Network Insight, LLC
> www.networkinsight.com
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