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Re: A challenge for UNIX wizards
Article: 7947 of alt.hackers From: seca40%teach@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Fauzan Mirza) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: A challenge for UNIX wizards Date: 2 Jun 1995 19:06:40 GMT Organization: Sheffield University Lines: 22 Approved: Big Brother Message-ID: 3qnng0$3on@hippo.shef.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: suna22.dcs.shef.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Status: RO
Christopher Biggs (chris@stallion.oz.au) wrote:
: set@oryx.llnl.gov (Sam Trenholme) wrote:
: > 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)
How about (for bash users):
for i in *man ; do mv $i ${i%man}1 ; done
--Fauzan
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Fauzan Mirza Dept of Computer Science DOS/NetWare/Linux
F.U.Mirza@shef.ac.uk University of Sheffield Programming/Security
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