*- On 5 Oct, Brian Servis wrote about "Re: auto-change filenames" > *- 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" >
Let me change the above to: mmv "*.cnm" "\!#1.cnm" The ! needs to be escaped from whatever mmv is using to rename files. -- 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.
