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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Bash script to execute a program to rename files Post 302620175 by raymen on Saturday 7th of April 2012 09:37:21 AM
Old 04-07-2012
Ok, thank you for your answer, I'm still a little bit confused because the line containing for file in *foo I think it will be valid for all files in the directory ending with foo. What about the files starting with foo and ending with smth else (Ex: .tex) ? After that I suppose /path/to/foo2bar should be the path to the program that should convert(rename) foo files in bar files. but what shuold "$file" means?

Sorry for beeing so underdeveloped and behind the times but I really haven't touched scripting for years.
 

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NAME

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set_color - set the terminal color
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