change file names

[Mark Komarinski]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:10:21AM -0500, Jon maddog Hall wrote:
> There are probably easier ways, but for a relatively small number of files,
> and using the bash shell:
> 
> for a in 1 2 3 4 ...
> do
> mv exp1eve$a.txt exp2eve$a.txt
> done
> 
> were the periods are replaced by however many digits you have.

Or:

for a in `seq 1 50`
do
mv  exp1eve$a.txt exp2eve$a.txt
done

If you use seq -w, the numbers will have the same length, padded with 0s
if necessary (01, 02 ... 10, 11 ...)

-Mark
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