simple question about mv

[Rob Bernardo]

In article <18217 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
+
+what does?  I'm under Ultrix 2.2.  I'm doing it by hand, but I'd like to
+be able to do wild card renames, ala DOS.

If you have ksh do this:

for file in *.flip
do
	mv $file ${file%%flip}flop
done

otherwise you could resort to using sed to generate the new file name,
something like this (but pardon any typos):

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