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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Can't get mv to work properly Post 302990064 by Don Cragun on Saturday 21st of January 2017 05:03:41 AM
Old 01-21-2017
So, we move up to the next level in using shell variables (adding parameter expansions to the steps involved):
Code:
for f in *.wav;do mv "$f" "${f%wav}bwf";done

And, concerning your "tiny remark"; we usually recommend that you learn to use vi when editing shell scripts instead of using "pretty-printing editors" like TextEdit. The vi editor may have a steep learning curve, but you will learn all about using regular expressions (that you can use in sed and grep and find) and editing commands that you can use not only in vi but also in sed, shell command history expansions, ed, ex, and cursor motion commands that apply in many other interactive commands, AND you'll get the single-quotes, double-quotes, and back-quotes you need without a pretty-printing editor's thinking that other characters might look prettier but then make your scripts fail miserably since shells don't recognize them as valid syntax.

Last edited by Don Cragun; 01-21-2017 at 06:06 AM.. Reason: Fix typo: s/scrips/scripts/
 

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PAPS(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   PAPS(1)

NAME
paps - UTF-8 to PostScript converter using Pango SYNOPSIS
paps [options] files... DESCRIPTION
paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file. The rendering is done by creating outline curves through the pango ft2 backend. OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. --landscape Landscape output. Default is portrait. --columns=cl Number of columns output. Default is 1. Please notice this option isn't related to the terminal length as in a "80 culums terminal". --font=desc Set the font description. Default is Monospace 12. --rtl Do right to left (RTL) layout. --paper ps Choose paper size. Known paper sizes are legal, letter and A4. Default is A4. Postscript points Each postscript point equals to 1/72 of an inch. 36 points are 1/2 of an inch. --bottom-margin=bm Set bottom margin. Default is 36 postscript points. --top-margin=tm Set top margin. Default is 36 postscript points. --left-margin=lm Set left margin. Default is 36 postscript points. --right-margin=rm Set right margin. Default is 36 postscript points. --gutter-width=gw Set gutter width. Default is 40 postscript points. --help Show summary of options. --header Draw page header for each page. --markup Interpret the text as pango markup. --lpi Set the lines per inch. This determines the line spacing. --cpi Set the characters per inch. This is an alternative method of specifying the font size. --stretch-chars Indicates that characters should be stretched in the y-direction to fill up their vertical space. This is similar to the texttops behaviour. AUTHOR
paps was written by Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>. This manual page was written by Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). April 17, 2006 PAPS(1)
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