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From: Andrew Schulman <andrex AT alumni DOT utexas DOT net>
Subject:  Re: Command to move groups of files
Date:  Fri, 20 May 2005 11:35:33 -0400
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> 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 :)


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