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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Adding an extension to a group of filenames Post 49756 by pepintheshort on Friday 9th of April 2004 02:55:59 PM
Old 04-09-2004
Optimus,

I appreciate the insight, but I think you're missing my point. My problem is with the regular expression I posted above. I need help matching the metacharacters.

If you had read my initial post, you'll also see that I am hesitant to use mv or cp to rename the files because (without the "for" loop) it will only mv one file at a time. Since I am a relative newcomer to creating a shell script, I need more information than just one brief phrase - details are extremely critical. So, if you think I should use a "for" loop, why not post a sample of the code - all of the code, not "do cool stuff here" - so that it helps fix my problem. Other new people might read this post too and possibly learn from it.

If you don't know the answer to my question, I would appreciate you not wasting my time, and letting someone else answer - even if its to point me to an FAQ where this type of question may have already been answered. (I did search the BBS briefly before posting and did not match what I was looking for.)
 

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