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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Change all filenames in a directory Post 302354271 by peterro on Thursday 17th of September 2009 03:54:13 PM
Old 09-17-2009
the 'echo' is doing what was coded. I suspect that dr.house didn't want to assume how you wanted to move/modify/etc the files, so they just echoed the output to show that the logic was sound. This leaves it up to you to move/modify/etc the code to do what you want.
 

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