Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew Schulman Subject: Re: Command to move groups of files Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 11:35:33 -0400 Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5tpjnp1bezoj$.1oqpyep8fo0mg$.dlg@40tude.net> References: <428DE516.8020901@buddydog.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 (af46100d.188.279) X-Archive: Yes X-IsSubscribed: yes > Somone a month or so ago posted a list of little known Cygwin > commands, and in that list was a cool command that allowed you > to rename a list of files, like thus: > > cmd First*.* Second*.* > > which would rename all files starting with "First" to be "Second". > I used this command a bit, and then promptly forgot about it until > I really needed to use it yesterday. > > Could someone remind me of the name of that command? Yes, I remember the command. Its name is: for ff in First*.* ; do mv $ff Second${ff#First} done Works for me, I use it all the time :) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/