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16 Aug 09
Hi, all
I have a range of files in a certain dir, like this,
$ touch file[123456]
$ ls
file1 file2 file3 file4 file5 file6
pre-file1
pre-file2
pre-file3
...
pre-file6
Regards,
gavin
16 Aug 09
for files in filename* ; do new="prefix_$files" ; echo "$files $new" ; done
you don't even need the new="prefix_files";
you can
for files in filename* ; do mv $files pre_$files ; done
and make it even shorter
root@msu:~/haha# for files in haha* ; do new="prefix_$files" ; echo "$files $new" ; done
haha1 prefix_haha1
haha2 prefix_haha2
haha3 prefix_haha3
haha4 prefix_haha4
haha5 prefix_haha5
haha6 prefix_haha6
haha7 prefix_haha7
24 Aug 09
thanks for ur reply, :laugh: i now find another two solutions as follows,
solution1:
ls | xargs -I{} mv {} pre_{}
solution2:
rename '' pre- *
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