Renaming files

[huBBLe]

how do u write a script that renames all the files in the current directory such dat a "." is appended to the front of the filename, ie make it invisible?

 

[ayjaycee]

for f in `ls`
do
mv $f .$f
done TandA

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[lfoata]

ayjaycee answer is good for sh and ksh, if you are using csh look at the foreach syntax.