tarvaine@tukki.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen) (05/27/90)
In article <23368@adm.BRL.MIL> rose@baby.swmed.utexas.edu (Rose Oguz) writes: >The original files have the same root name and different extensions. How >can I copy them to files with another root name while keeping the >extensions? Just for fun, here's yet another way: ls foo.* | sed 's/foo\(.*\)/mv foo\1 bar\1/' | sh Just about any such conversion can be done this way, although the command can get rather messy (nice way to convince novices that you're a *nix guru ...) -- Tapani Tarvainen (tarvaine@jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)
tarvaine@tukki.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen) (05/27/90)
In article <1990May26.182215.27766@tukki.jyu.fi> I wrote: >>How can I copy them to files with another root name while keeping the >>extensions? >ls foo.* | sed 's/foo\(.*\)/mv foo\1 bar\1/' | sh ^^ Should've been "cp" of course. -- Tapani Tarvainen (tarvaine@jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)