How to do mv *.xyz *.abc in shell script??
Tim McDaniel
mcdaniel at adi.com
Sat Sep 8 01:00:28 AEST 1990
This is from Dan LaLiberte of the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. I've used it for years. The conversion to
Bourne-shell syntax should be obvious. Usage is like
rename 's/\.xyz$/abc/' *.xyz
#! /bin/csh -f
#/* Written 7:36 pm May 29, 1988 by liberte at uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu in
# uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu:comp.sources.d */
# Here is my rename script.
#
# Dan LaLiberte
# liberte at a.cs.uiuc.edu
# uiucdcs!liberte
#
# ---
#
# rename files with a sed command. File names may have spaces in them.
if ($#argv < 2) then
echo "Usage: rename sed-command file ..."
exit (1)
endif
set command = "$1"
shift
set noglob
while ($#argv > 0)
set name = ($argv[1])
shift
set newname = `echo "$name" | sed -e "$command"`
if ($status != 0) exit 1
echo "mv -i $name $newname"
mv -i "$name" "$newname"
end
exit 0
# /* End of text from uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu:comp.sources.d */
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