How do I change the extensions on a slew of files

[Larry Rosenman]

--On Friday, September 12, 2003 17:11:50 -0700 James Long 
<james_mapson at umpquanet.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 08:28:19PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>>
>>
>> from an sh type shell
>> for i in *.inc
>> do
>> z=`echo $i | sed -e "s/inc/htm/g"`
>> mv ${i} ${z}
>> done
>>
>> (not tested, but should work.)
>>
>> LER
>
> What does it do with a file named
>
> include.inc
>
> z=`echo $i | sed -e "s/inc$/htm/g"`
>
> is better, no?
Yep, and some other kind folks pointed this out.

Thanks,
LER



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