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1995; any technical information is probably outdated.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: 7893 of alt.hackers From: paul@frcs.alt.za (Paul Nash) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: A challenge for UNIX wizards Date: 27 May 1995 21:43:25 +1000 Organization: Free Range Computer Systems CC Lines: 17 Approved: feh! Message-ID: 3q738t$27o@tantrum.frcs.alt.za NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.148.149 Status: RO
cmcurtin@clipper.cb.att.com (C Matthew Curtin) writes:
> for x in `ls *.man`
> do
> mv $x `ls $x | sed s/\.man/\.1/g`
> done
mv $x `echo $x | sed -e 's/\.man$/\.1/'`
Otherwise you'll change "man.man.man" to "man.1.1",
which is not
quite what was intended. One (of many) alternatives is:
mv $x `basename $x .man`.1
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