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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Renaming multiple files Post 48064 by oombera on Thursday 26th of February 2004 03:40:28 AM
Old 02-26-2004
Maybe before you completely give up, you could try searching for the files since maybe your "mv" command is doing something unusual instead of displaying an error. But like Optimus, my system displays an error too.

find / -name "elecresume*" -print

find / -name "*.log.bak" -print
 

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