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Old 02-15-2008
fimblo fimblo is offline
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: stockholm sweden
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how bout this:

Code:
for file in $(find . -type f -iname '*.img'); do
  mv $file ${file/img/iso}
done
This doesnt take filenames nor directories with whitespaces in them, to adapt the above to that, do:

Code:
save_ifs=$IFS ; IFS='
'
for file in $(find . -type f -iname '*.img'); do
  mv "$file" "${file/img/iso}"
done
IFS=$save_ifs
hope this helps
cheers

EDIT: This works for bash, but if I remember correctly the default shell on macosX is bash...