renaming mass file extensions (HELP), in Debian Linux Options

[bd1308]

I know what i want to do...i have a bizillion .php files i need to get to be .php3 files....so my logic is like this:

rm *.php *.php3

but of course, that dont work.......

please somebody help (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/pray.gif)

[tat2dphreak]

QUOTE (bd1308 @ Apr 7 2005, 01:36 PM)

nevermind....it worked!!!!! yea! thank you all....now you all have to tell me hwo to learn all of this stuff

cool!!!
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weird it gave that error though...


I learned it on the job...

ksh is basically a way to string together common unix commands...


"echo" "cut" "cp" are just unix commands, you can look at their man page (cut is one of the most powerful tools in string manipulation... a file name is just a string when you think about it...

the "for x in *php" basically creates an array of all the file names(strings) and loops through them 1 by 1...
from there you just "create" your new file name(string) by taking the first part of the file_name (cut command, -d means 'delimited' by what ever character you put after it, -f tells it what "field" # you want of it)...
then the cp command actually looks at the variable x as a file(instead of a string) and copies the x (original) file to the new(bname.php3) name