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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