On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Axel Freyn <axel-fr...@gmx.de> 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. > Just some additional remarks: > a) the for-loop won't work, as "FILE" is expanded to the name including > the .txt, so if you have a file "a.txt" this loop will execute > mv a.txt.txt a.txt.pdf > You need instead > for FILE in *.txt; do mv $FILE `basename $FILE .txt`.pdf; done > in order to remove the ".txt" from the variable "$FILE" > Seriously, I have problem testing this one, the come out is like: (basename $FILE .txt.pdf sorry I might be so sleepy, I will check another time, > b) for-loops in bash can be REALLY problematic, as soon as you have > special characters in your filenames. Like for example spaces or > new-lines or other control characters... OK, at least new lines are > luckily very rare, but they can exist. > So you should try e.g. > for FILE in *.txt; do mv "$FILE" "`basename \"$FILE\" .txt`".pdf; done > (this works at least with spaces in the filename...) > Thanks for your detained explaination. > > Axel > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110915162728.GH2798@axel > > -- Best Regards, lina
