rename v. script

[Mike Klinke]

On Thursday 19 May 2005 00:01, THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
> bash-3.00$ mv 1151154 1151154.html
> bash-3.00$ mv 1199229 1199229.html
> bash-3.00$ mv 1238181 1238181.html
>
> each file can be changed.  however, there are many files and that
> is very tedious.  can the above three commands (or 50, or 100) be
> written with a single rename command?


If all the files in the directory are to have the additional ".html" 
suffix added then something like this may do:

for i in *; do mv $i `basename $i`.html; done

If you need to be more selective, you can fiddle with the first 
section with the "*".  For example, to rename only the files 
beginning with the number "1":

for i in 1*; do ........

or files beginning with any number:

for i in [1-9]*; do .....


Regards, Mike Klinke