*- On 5 Oct, Brian J. Stults wrote about "auto-change filenames" > Could someone give me a sample script (perhaps bash or sed) to change a > group of filenames from their original name to the same name preceeded > by an exclamation point. For example, changing the following filenames > from: > > test1.cnm > test2.cnm > > to > > !test1.cnm > !test2.cnm > > Thanks! >
Install the mmv package and read the man page, for your example above the following should work. mmv "*.cnm" "!#1.cnm" -- Brian Servis ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.