Re: Command to move groups of files

[Andrew Schulman <andrex at alumni dot utexas dot net>]

> Somone a month or so ago posted a list of little known Cygwin
> commands, and in that list was a cool command that allowed you
> to rename a list of files, like thus:
> 
>   cmd First*.* Second*.*
> 
> which would rename all files starting with "First" to be "Second".
> I used this command a bit, and then promptly forgot about it until
> I really needed to use it yesterday.
> 
> Could someone remind me of the name of that command?

Yes, I remember the command.  Its name is:

for ff in First*.* ; do
  mv $ff Second${ff#First}
done

Works for me, I use it all the time :)


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