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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 21:36:30 +0000
From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To: Keith Anderson <keith@apcs.com.au>
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Subject: Re: omething simple (sorry)
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I wrote...

> for i in *.txt; do mv $i $(basename $i .txt); done

smeg. This might work better:

for i in *.txt; do mv $i $(basename $i .txt).old; done

-- 
Ben Smithurst
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