[ale] Newb question

[Geoffrey]

Actually, it works either way.  with the {} you don't need the quotes 
around .bak

Chris Fowler wrote:

> #!/bin/sh
> for stuff in * do
>    mv $stuff ${stuff}".bak"
> done
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thompson Freeman [mailto:tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 4:42 PM
> To: Ty Connell
> Cc: 'ale at ale.org'
> Subject: Re: [ale] Newb question
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 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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