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Thank you very much. works a treat. exacly what i was after.

Hi. on similar lines.. i need to create thousands of empty files for testing. i usually use the above or a for i loop but this would be no good for thousands of files. Is there a while less than...

Thanks for your suggestions folks. Handy forum. I've not tried perl before but will have a read up. I think for the time being i will stick with the "for i" & "while" methods for this though.

Yep! quite like that. saves mucking around with a delimiter.
made a one liner out of it and worked fine.

ls WLAN_* | egrep -v '.fixed|.TRF'| while read file; do mv "$file" "${file%.*}".fixed;...

Variations of multiple renames seems to come up a lot but i can't find the answer to this situation.
Tidying up a directory where people rename files to .working, .bob, .attempt1 & so on.

what i...

Thanks SFNYC. Just what I was after. Stick a “t” on the end & I can now see what happened to the numbers & in what order.

I've seen several examples of grep showing the filename the string was found in, but what I really need is grep to show the file details in long format (like ls -l would).
scenario is:
grep...