anybody plz tell how to rename files like this using script myfile.01 to yourfile.01 myfile.02 to yourfile.02 myfile.03 to yourfile.03 myfile.04 to yourfile.04 myfile.05 to yourfile.05

for file in \ myfile.01 \ myfile.02 \ myfile.03 \ myfile.04 \ myfile.05 ; do mv $file yourfile`echo $file | cut -f2 -d '.'` done

I've seen enough of David's answers to not question his scripting ability, so I assume that he's just answering the exact question asked. If I assume that you want to rename all of the files who's names are myfile.*, you could use: for file in myfile.* do mv $file yourfile`echo $file | cut -f2 -d '.'` done OR for file in myfile.?? OR for file in myfile.[0-9][0-9] We've reached the limits of my regex ability! This would save typing all of the filenames (I'm lazy)

tnx for the help i've got lot of files starting with myfile.01 to myfile.99 is there any way to convert from myfile.* to yourfile.*

Change ext: for f in myfile.+([0-9])* do print mv $f ${f%*.}.new done Change all but ext: for f in myfile.+([0-9])* do print mv $f newfile.${f##*.} done

...forgot to mention, that's ksh syntax. Doesn't seem to work in bash, zsh etc.

thankx Don, David and William for the help. gr8, the script working fine thankx a lot.