Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 00:23:50 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Jayson Alvarez <jay2xra@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How will I rename every file in a directory to their filenames appending anything? Message-ID: <20050204082350.17779.qmail@web51610.mail.yahoo.com>
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Example. I would want to rename every file that ends in .mp3 to their filename with appended .old. so that, test.mp3 will be renamed test.mp3.old? my initial command would then be: ls |grep mp3 |xargs -J # mv #..[this part is what trying to figure out] How will I tell the mv that its arguments would be the output of ls and append something like ".old" to it? ~ Thanks! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
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