I would:
from the csh prompt, do:
foreach name (`ls *.cpp`)
?set destname = `echo $name |sed 's+\.cpp+.c+`
?mv $name $destname
?end
On May 21, 11:40am, Guy Santiglia wrote:
} Subject: changing a group of file name extensions
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} Let's say you had a big group of files with the extension *.CPP like this
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} EX02010.CPP EX06006.CPP EX07019.CPP EX08008.CPP EX10001.CPP EX10021.CPP
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} (only much bigger)
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} and you want them all to have the extension *.C and not *.CPP.
} And let's say that you are lazy and don't want to type:
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} # mv EX02010.CPP EX02010.C
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} hundreds of times  :(
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} What would you do?  What WOULD you do?
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}   Or what list might you ask a question like this?
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} EX02010.CPP EX06006.CPP EX07019.CPP EX08008.CPP EX10001.CPP EX10021.CPP
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} 	Thanks for any suggestions,
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} 		Guy
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