[ale] Mass changing of file extension

[Jay Lozier]

On 09/14/2012 10:30 AM, Pete Hardie wrote:
> this shell script should do it - note that I use copy instead of move,
> for test purposes
>
> for i in *,tsv
> do
> b=basename $i .tsv
> cp $i ${b}.csv
> done
>
>
> Pete Hardie
> --------
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Thanks
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Jay Lozier <jslozier at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I saw a question about importing a *.tsv (tab delimited text files) into
>> a spreadsheet. The problem is *.tsv are unusual while *.csv are common.
>>
>> My question is how does one change the file extension of many *.tsv to
>> *.csv files?
>>
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>> Jay Lozier
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