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Date:	Tue, 6 May 2003 06:50:04 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To:	Ray Chuan <rctay1989 AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: how to mass rename files?
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On Tue, 6 May 2003, Ray Chuan wrote:

> I have a folder with pictures and text files. How do I rename all the
> *.jpegs and *.docs as, say, yahoo1, yahoo2, yahoo3...

Ray,

This is a non-Cygwin specific shell programming question, and thus is
off-topic for this list.
	Igor
P.S. Hint: "info bash", and look at the "Looping constructs" and "Shell
arithmetic" sections.
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