On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:10:03PM -0500, David S. Jackson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to use |xargs -J [] mv [] [].suffix
>
> but to no avail.
>
> I've tried |xargs -J mv \[\] \[\].suffix and variations but that
> doesn't seem to work either. It seems to work fine with the -i
> command under GNU xargs, but not under Freebsd.
>
> An example would be
>
> $ touch one two three
> $ ls one two three | xargs -J [] mv [] [].suffix
>
> I should now have one.suffix two.suffix three.suffix. At least,
> that's what happens with GNU and the -i \{\}. (FreeBSD manpage says
> to use -J [] without escapes though.)
>
> Can anyone lend me a clue here please?
>
> TIA.
>
> --
> David S. Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Two things. First, from `man xargs`:
"Furthermore, only the first occurrence of the replstr will be
replaced." Second, maybe a different tool would be better. How
about:
$ for file in `ls one two three`; do move $file $file.suffix; done
Nathan
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