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1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: A challenge for UNIX wizards
Article: 7873 of alt.hackers Newsgroups: alt.hackers From: tim@acm.org Subject: Re: A challenge for UNIX wizards Message-ID: tim.801387391@canon.co.uk Sender: tim@canon.co.uk Organization: Not !NET-CRE Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 07:36:31 GMT Approved: tim@canon.co.uk Lines: 26 Status: RO
set@oryx.llnl.gov (Sam Trenholme) writes:
|Ok guys, is there a way of doing this without using a temporary file:
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|ls | awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print "mv "$0"
"$1".1"}' > l;chmod 700 l;l;rm l
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|(The above made a list of files, foo.man, bar.man, etc. have the names
|foo.1, bar.1, etc)
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|The following didn't work:
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|eval `ls | awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print "mv "$0"
"$1".1"}'`
You're just missing a semi-colon to separate the individual mv commands, ie:
eval `ls | awk -F. '{print "mv "$0" "$1".1;"}'`
Alternatively:
perl -e 'for(@ARGV){($n=$_)=~s/\.man$/.1/;rename($_,$n);}' *.man
Bigger and faster.
Tim
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