Command to move groups of files
Andrew Schulman
andrex@alumni.utexas.net
Fri May 20 16:44:00 GMT 2005
> Somone a month or so ago posted a list of little known Cygwin
> commands, and in that list was a cool command that allowed you
> to rename a list of files, like thus:
>
> cmd First*.* Second*.*
>
> which would rename all files starting with "First" to be "Second".
> I used this command a bit, and then promptly forgot about it until
> I really needed to use it yesterday.
>
> Could someone remind me of the name of that command?
Yes, I remember the command. Its name is:
for ff in First*.* ; do
mv $ff Second${ff#First}
done
Works for me, I use it all the time :)
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