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Old 01-10-2012
The below will create a file like test199901.csv
Code:
 
for i in *.csv; do sed -e 's/ /,/' -e s'/^/test,/' $i > test$i.csv; done

The below will create a file like 199901test.csv

Code:
 
for i in *.csv; do fn=$(basename $i .csv)"test.csv"; sed -e 's/ /,/' -e s'/^/test,/' $i > $fn; done

# 9  
Old 01-10-2012
Code:
# ls -1
199901.csv
199902.csv
199903.csv
# for a in *.csv; do mv $a ${a%%.*}test.${a##*.}; done
# ls -1
199901test.csv
199902test.csv
199903test.csv

Last edited by zaxxon; 01-10-2012 at 07:58 AM.. Reason: simplified it
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