Bash Help: Renaming all files in a Directory
Jacques B.
jjrboucher at gmail.com
Sat Jul 22 23:20:40 UTC 2006
> Off the top of my head...
> $ for f in *.jpg; do; mv $f `echo $f | sed 's/ //g'`; done
>
> hth
>
> --wpd
I was able to benefit from this tip as I had a bunch of web pages
printed to postscript files that I wanted to convert to pdf so I used
the command:
for f in *.ps; do ps2pdf "$f";done
It worked like a charm.
I love the command line tips & tricks because you can use them in so
many situations.
Jacques B.
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