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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Renaming multiple files Post 48026 by Optimus_P on Wednesday 25th of February 2004 09:20:03 AM
Old 02-25-2004
mv works on 1 target at a time.

you cant specify multiple files unless you are moveing them to a directory.

on my solaris 8 box. i get the following:

Code:
$ ls *.log
1.log  2.log  3.log
$ mv *.log *.log.bak
mv: *.log.bak not found
$ ls
1.log  2.log  3.log

 

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