Unix questions - script to rename files

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script to rename files

2006-08-17, 1:19 pm

Hi -

I have 124 files each with the same first 8 letters/numbers (e6961s5i)
then numbered 001, 002 through 124 (for example e6961s5i001)

Currently all of these files do not have an extension and I would like
them to all have the extension .mr

Can anyone tell me how to write script that does this? All the files
are in the same directory.

Thanks
A

Chris F.A. Johnson

2006-08-17, 1:19 pm

On 2006-08-17, A wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I have 124 files each with the same first 8 letters/numbers (e6961s5i)
> then numbered 001, 002 through 124 (for example e6961s5i001)
>
> Currently all of these files do not have an extension and I would like
> them to all have the extension .mr
>
> Can anyone tell me how to write script that does this? All the files
> are in the same directory.

for file in e6961s5i*
do
mv "$file" "$file.mr"
done

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