Re: A challenge for UNIX wizards

Article: 7875 of alt.hackers
From: and1000@thor.cam.ac.uk (Austin Donnelly)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: A challenge for UNIX wizards
Date: 25 May 1995 11:29:28 GMT
Organization: University of Cambridge, England
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In article <3q185g$3je@lll-winken.llnl.gov>,
Sam Trenholme <set@oryx.llnl.gov> wrote:
>
>ls | awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print "mv "$0"
"$1".1"}' > l;chmod 700 l;l;rm l
>
>(The above made a list of files, foo.man, bar.man, etc. have the names
>foo.1, bar.1, etc)

But it won't do too well for files like "foo.bar.man" :)

You can use the build-in features of bash to do something like this:

---------- cut cut cut ----------
#!/bin/bash
# Convert *.man to *.1
from=.man
to=.1
for i in *$from; do
  base=${i%$from}
  mv $i $base$to
done
---------- cut cut cut ----------

Austin
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