[ale] Mass changing of file extension

[Pete Hardie]

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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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?
>
> --
> Jay Lozier
> jslozier at gmail.com
>
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