From: Sam Carleton <sam@linux-info.net>
Subject: Re: renaming a group of files
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 22:57:58 -0500

> On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 07:52:48PM -0800, Conrad T. Pino wrote:
> > Syntaxes and methods vary by which shell your using.  Please
> > name your favorite poison:
> > 
> > Bourne shell  /bin/sh
> >      C shell  /bin/csh
> >   Korn shell  /bin/ksh
>  
> Conrad,
> 
> sorry about that, it is csh, well really tcsh:)

`jot` is a wonderful little program I use in this case:

jot 12 1 | while read i ; do mv file$i.txt TheTestFile$i.txt ; done

Marko