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Old 03-18-2008
antointoronto antointoronto is offline
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rename multiple files

Hi,

can anyone have a ksh script to rename multiple files (ie to remove .Z extension of the files)

can someone correct this?

for i in *.Z
do
var1 = substr($i, 1,at(".Z",$i)-1)
mv $i $var1
done

Thanks..
Antony