[ale] Newb question

[Thompson Freeman]

I'm likely to have a typo or three, but along the lines of:

#!/bin/sh
for stuff in * do
   mv $stuff $stuff".bak"
done

I don't do nearly enough shell work, but that is approximately correct I
think. And I'm sure somebody will fix my errors loudly!


On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Ty Connell wrote:

> I would like to rename all the files in a directory from <file> to
> <file>.bak.  I know there is an easy way to do it, but I don't know it - any
> help?
> 
> My hacky solution was to use this:
> perl -pi.bak -e '//'
> which gives me backups of all the files.  Then I just blow away the real
> ones I don't want to use.
> 
> There must be a more elegant solution that my simple mind just does not
> know.
> 
> -ty
> 
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