This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: A challenge for UNIX wizards
Article: 7879 of alt.hackers From: edp@math.zk3.dec.com (Eric Postpischil) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: A challenge for UNIX wizards Date: 25 May 1995 20:29:06 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 24 Approved: edp Distribution: world Message-ID: 3q2pai$107@jac.zko.dec.com Reply-To: edp@mv.com NNTP-Posting-Host: math.zk3.dec.com Status: RO
In article <3q185g$3je@lll-winken.llnl.gov>, set@oryx.llnl.gov (Sam
Trenholme) writes:
>Ok guys, is there a way of doing this without using a temporary file:
>
>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)
Pipe it to a shell:
ls | awk 'awk_program' | sh
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