On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 01:32:33PM -0400, Bob Torres wrote: > Hi All, > > I recently transferred some MP3s from my MacOS desktop to my Debianppc > laptop. There are no file extensions for these mp3 files, so they're > kind worthless for xmms in Linux. > > On the Linux side, how would I go about adding extensions to these files > without doing it manually? In other words, is there something I could > pass at the command line to accomplish this for a whole directory of > files? I've been using Linux for three years or so now, and I've always > wanted to know how to do this...anyone care to educate me? I'm hoping > for something a little more substantive than "go learn sed (or whatever > program)," though learning by example usually works the best for me. ; )
I tend to do this as a shell command, and that'd depend on your shell. For csh variants: foreach file (*) mv $file $file.mp3 end For sh variants (bash, ksh, ...): for file in * ; do mv $file $file.mp3 ; done You'll want to read your shell manpages if you want to do stuff like removing old extensions, etc. Jon Leonard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
