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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Change multiple filename formats with WHILE Post 302170802 by ScKaSx on Tuesday 26th of February 2008 06:00:29 PM
Old 02-26-2008
Change multiple filename formats with WHILE
Hi All,

I'm trying to run a simple shell program to change all the files named *.cvs to *.txt. I am trying to use WHILE and this is what I have so far:
Quote:
$ while [ $filename ]
> do
> mv $filename `basename $filename .cvs`.txt
> done
This changes the first file from *.cvs to *.txt, but it is not cycling through the other files.

My suspicion is that I don't have the right WHILE [CONDITION], but since I haven't used WHILE before I'm not sure how to do something like while [ $filename!=*.txt ] (psuedo code). Also, I am by no means tied to the WHILE command, if someone knows another command to do this I'd like to know.

Cheers,
ScKaSx
 

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ae-cvs-ci

ae-cvs-ci(1)															      ae-cvs-ci(1)

NAME

	ae-cvs-ci - checkin a change set to CVS

SYNOPSIS

	ae-cvs-ci project-name change-number

DESCRIPTION

	The ae-cvs-ci command is used to check an Aegis change set into CVS.

	This script is a short wrapper around the ae-repo-ci(1) command.

	This is usually used in the integrate pass notify command project attribute, as in
		integrate_pass_notify_command =
		    "$bin/ae-cvs-ci $project $change";

EXIT STATUS

	The ae-cvs-ci command will exit with a status of 1 on any error.  The ae-cvs-ci command will only exit with a status of 0 if there are no
	errors.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

	See aegis(1) for a list of environment variables which may affect this command.  See aepconf(5) for the project configuration file's
	project_specific field for how to set environment variables for all commands executed by Aegis.

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	ae-cvs-ci version 4.24.3.D001
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	Miller

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	and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; for details use the 'ae-cvs-ci -VERSion License' command.

AUTHOR

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