command line pattern and $ vars

[simanek]

hi all,
I"m trying to mv several files from name.new to name.old. In other words, I have a bunch of files with the .new extension that I want to copy to a file of the same name with a .old extension. I'm doing this in ksh. I thought I could simply do a mv *.new $1.old but that just doesn't work. Any help would be appreciated. Mike
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[lordblood]

Try this:

#!/usr/bin/ksh

for item in *.new
do
mv $item ${item%.new}.old
done

Just something to think about ;-)