simple question about mv

[Andrew Koenig]

In article <18216 at adm.BRL.MIL>, DEG41560 at ua1vm.ua.edu (Rob Smith) writes:
>  I know this is simple, but then again, so am I.  What if I want to mv a bunch
> of files with the same suffix to another suffix. The following does not
> work
> 
>     mv *.flip *.flop

If you give a bunch of operands to mv, the last one must be a directory
and all the others are moved into that directory.  Thus the last
(in alphabetical order) thing with a name of *.flop becomes the
target directory and everything else winds up thee.

This is almost surely not what you want.

To get what you want, try this:

	for i in *.flip
	do	mv $i `echo $i | sed 's/flip$/flop/'`
	done
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