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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting try to batch rename using sed (if this is best) Post 302495144 by Scott on Wednesday 9th of February 2011 11:40:19 AM
Old 02-09-2011
Taking what you already have:

Code:
$ ls *.dat.old | sed 'p;s/.dat.old/_N.dat/' | xargs -n2 mv

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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FILES

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SEE ALSO

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