[thelist] bulk rename on Mac

[Hassan Schroeder]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Joel D Canfield <joel at bizba6.com> wrote:
> I have a folder packed with .asp files which I need to rename .php (yes, I
> changed the code inside already)
>
> mv *.asp *.php in Terminal seems like it should work, but only throws an
> error (well, not really, it just spits back "here's how to use mv")

ripple:/tmp$ ls *.asp
-rw-r--r--  1 hassan  wheel  0 Nov 23 11:41 1.asp
-rw-r--r--  1 hassan  wheel  0 Nov 23 11:41 2.asp
-rw-r--r--  1 hassan  wheel  0 Nov 23 11:41 3.asp
ripple:/tmp$
ripple:/tmp$ for arg in *.asp; do echo $arg | sed 's/.asp//'  ; done
1
2
3
ripple:/tmp$ for arg in *.asp; do mv $arg `echo $arg | sed 's/.asp//'`.php; done
ripple:/tmp$ ls *.php
-rw-r--r--  1 hassan  wheel  0 Nov 23 11:41 1.php
-rw-r--r--  1 hassan  wheel  0 Nov 23 11:41 2.php
-rw-r--r--  1 hassan  wheel  0 Nov 23 11:41 3.php
ripple:/tmp$

Simplistic, hopefully adequate :-)

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