Re: [Plug] quick solution please

[Kyle Burton <mortis@voicenet.com>]

Eh, those 2 cmdlines should look like this:

$ ls *.txt | perl foreach.pl "mv \$pre.txt \$pre.new"
$ ls *.txt | perl foreach.pl "echo mv \$pre.txt \$pre.new"

or like this:

$ ls *.txt | perl foreach.pl 'mv $pre.txt $pre.new'
$ ls *.txt | perl foreach.pl 'echo mv $pre.txt $pre.new'

I forgot about shell substitution 8)  oops

k

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On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Kyle Burton wrote:

> Or, either of these should do the trick:
> 
> http://www.voicenet.com/~mortis/projects/misc/foreach.pl
> http://www.voicenet.com/~mortis/projects/misc/foreach.tar.gz
> 
> The C code is older than my grandmother, and I have no idea if it's
> as good as the perl code (though they were supposed to be implementations
> lf the same thing).
> 
> 
> $ ls *.txt | perl foreach.pl "mv $pre.txt $pre.new"
> 
> but do this first:
> 
> $ ls *.txt | perl foreach.pl "echo mv $pre.txt $pre.new"
> 
> to make sure what you're trying to do is sane... :)
> 
> bada-bing
> bada-boom
> 
> k
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> On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Jack Wilkinson wrote:
> 
> > how can one change the extention on a group of files?  I've got a bunch of
> > .txt files, and I want to drop the extention... like make text.txt just
> > text... for a group... how could I do it all in one command?
> > 
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