mv command

[NitzGuy]

hi,
this is probably really simple, I have about 70 files with a .es extension and I want to change the extension to .4gl without changing the contents of the file.

I don't know if I can use
mv *.es *.4gl
or not

Can someone please help me.
Thanks

 

[usige]

Move won't allow you to do that. You can either do one to one moves or multiple to directory moves. Multiples can't change the file name.

Being on linux you'll likely have the rename utility. You'd use it like:

rename .es .4gl *es

Hope the helps.

 

[flugh]

This should work (test it out on a couple files first though ;-))

for i in *.es; do
    mv "$i" `echo "$i" | sed -e 's/\.es/\.4gl/g'`;
done

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JR