How do I change the extensions on a slew of files

[Larry Rosenman]

--On Wednesday, September 03, 2003 19:38:20 -0700 Mike Hogsett 
<hogsett at csl.sri.com> wrote:

>
>> from an sh type shell
>> for i in *.inc
>> do
>> z=`echo $i | sed -e "s/inc/htm/g"`
>> mv ${i} ${z}
>> done
>
> This won't give expected results for a file named "fooinc.inc".  It will
> become "foohtm.htm".  I realize that based on the file names given in the
> original email this doesn't appear to be an issue, but changing the sed
> command to
>
> 	  sed -e 's/\.inc$/\.html/'
>
> may give better (more generally useful) results.  Also note the ' instead
> of " so that the shell doesn't perform variable expansion within the sed
> command text. The shell will ignore the $ and instead sed uses it to match
> end of line or string in this case.
>
>  - Mike
thanks, Mike.  What you bring up, is of course, valid.





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