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rename all files with an extension
Name: roger Date: August 2, 2002 at 16:19:07 Pacific
Comment:
How do I rename all the files in a particular directory with the file extension .UNC for uncompressed. They are compressed and have a .Z extension but after I uncompress them they don't have an extension. This is on an AIX 4.2 ksh machine.
Name: Frank Date: August 4, 2002 at 23:42:10 Pacific
Reply:
Hi Roger,
I hope I understood the question correct.
for i in *.UNC ; do mv $i $i.Z done
this will change all *.unc files to *.unc.Z
I this what you would like to have or do you would like to replace the UNC against Z ?
No RISK no fun Frank
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Response Number 2
Name: roger34 Date: August 6, 2002 at 14:13:53 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks Frank that worked great.
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Response Number 3
Name: Dave Date: August 9, 2002 at 12:42:29 Pacific
Reply:
How would you go about replacing *.UNC with *.Z?
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Response Number 4
Name: Frank Date: August 13, 2002 at 04:13:27 Pacific
Reply:
Hi Dave,
sorry didn't saw your question earlier.
for file in `ls *.i` ; do new=`echo $file | sed -e "s/.UNC$/.Z/" if [ ! -f ${new} ] then mv ${file} ${new} else echo "$new already exist " 1>&2 fi done
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