Re: [Linuxcommand-discuss] Greetings & a Script

[William S. <wes...@co...>]

On Sunday 25 August 2002 01:26 pm, Bruce Burhans wrote:

> #!/bin/bash
> # 2.05
> old=$1
> new=$2
> for i in $( ls ); do
>          if [[ $i != *$old ]]; then
>               shift
>          else
>              k=$( basename $i ${old} )
>
>             mv $i ${k}${new}
>          fi
> done

First, you could simplify it by doing the following:

#!/bin/bash

old=$1
new=$2

for i in *$old; do
	k=$(basename $i $old)
	mv $i $k$new
done

I haven't tested this, but it looks right ;-)

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