10-09-2007
Appending text to a number of similar filenames
Hi,
I was wondering if there was a way to append something to filenames based on a wildcard. For example, if I have the following files in a directory:
blah1
blah2
blah3
blah4
blah5
I want to rename these all to:
blah1.txt
blah2.txt
blah3.txt
blah4.txt
blah5.txt
Is there a way to select all the blah files (using say, 'blah*'?) and then appending the same text to the end of them? I was looking at the mv command, but I was unsure of how to take all the filenames after saying 'mv blah*' and append text to them.
Thanks,
Dan
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NAME
amarchiver - Create, extract or list amanda archive
SYNOPSIS
amarchiver --version|--create|--extract|--list [--verbose] [--file file] [filename]...
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OPTIONS
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Create an amanda archive. Only the supplied filenames are included. With one --verbose, lists the filenames. With two, lists the
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List the filenames in an amanda archive. No additional filenames are allowed on the command line.
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