UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am pretty new to Unix and am on a Solaris 10 system. I am just curious if doing something like this is possible....

I have files on a disc that need to all be moved to a simple file, obviously i would just

cp *.* /usr/tester

but after they are there I want to enter these lines

chown^faad:faad^*.sim
typeset^-u^t
typeset^-l^e
for^f^in^*.*
do
t=${f%.*}
e=${f##*.}
mv “$f”^”$t.$e”
done

is it even possible to input all of these files into a script or a program and have it move the files to the directory, and then do the lines listed above with just an executable file? I ask because of the sheer number of systems that this has to be done on daily.

Thank you.

Is this a security thing, or space, or ???

All UNIX executable are on a disk, but execution happens on images copied page by page to RAM, essentially mmap(). Heap and stack are on allocated swap space, if rolled out of RAM. Of course, actual execution in the CPU may use copies of RAM words in level 1 or 2 cache!

However, if you need to change permissions/owner/group, you have to change the original or use a copy.