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)

[Root_Werks]

QUOTE (tat2dphreak @ Apr 7 2005, 11:43 AM)

QUOTE (Root_Werks @ Apr 7 2005, 02:33 PM) Whew!  Well, since everything is in a temp file, I would try something like this from the directory in which your files reside: mv -i *.php /home/temp/new_files/*.php3 Then you can: ls -l /home/temp/new_files/* > /home/temp/new_files/list.txt ls -l > list1.txt Compare the two list files to make sure nothing is missing. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wink.gif) I don't think that mv will work the way you used it... if so, it doesn't work for me under HP UNIX.. I just set up a test to try it, using a copy of my sql directory and a temp dir under it... razor:MED:/home/wf6341/temp_sql-> mkdir test razor:MED:/home/wf6341/temp_sql-> mv -i *.sql ./temp/*.sq1 Usage: mv [-f] [-i] [-e warn|force|ignore] f1 f2 mv [-f] [-i] [-e warn|force|ignore] f1 ... fn d1 mv [-f] [-i] [-e warn|force|ignore] d1 d2 razor:MED:/home/wf6341/temp_sql->

I'm just going off of memory. I have a unix emulator on my PC here at work I use sometimes for perl stuff, but haven't done much with the ksh in a few years. Written hundreds of ksh scripts on HP-UX boxes though. Ah the memories. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif)

I think my emulator is running bash, that could be the difference there.