On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Aaron Toponce <aaron.topo...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:07:16AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:03:40AM +0800, lina wrote: > > > mv *.txt *.pdf > > > > > > can it be done * way? > > > > > > all the *.txt in current directory? > > > > Yes. Checkout the rename(1) command. It comes from Perl, and can be used > > for exactly that. Or, you could write a simple for-loop: > > > > for FILE in *.txt; do mv $FILE.txt $FILE.pdf; done > > > > You have options. > > Actually, my for-loop is bad. This is what you get for typing something > without testing. > > for FILE in *.txt; do mv "$FILE" "$(basename $FILE .txt).pdf"; done > > That's better. And this time, it was actually tested. :) > Confirmed, this one works well. Thanks. ^_^ > > -- > . o . o . o . . o o . . . o . > . . o . o o o . o . o o . . o > o o o . o . . o o o o . o o o > -- Best Regards, lina
