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I have a script in which I am trying to move some files.

find DIR1|awk -F/ '{print "mv " $0, $0}'|sed -e "s/${DIR1}/&.OLD/g" -e 's/.OLD//'

which gives me:

mv DIR1/abc DIR1.OLD/abc
mv...

OK - will remember that. Thanks for your help.

Great - both solution worked. Thanks for your help - but could you tell me why the second solution is more efficient than the first? I've got into the habit of using for loops.

BACKUP is a variable set globally at login - it's not in /etc/profile, but all users process a login script that sets this and other variables.

Hi,

I'm using a for loop reading from an input file that contains files, whose path includes a variable name.

But the for loop doesn't expand the variable and therefore can't find the file.
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