Re: renaming files

On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 15:46:12 -0800, Scott Johnson
<scott.a.johnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> How can I do a mass re-naming of files in a directory? Like, I have a
> bunch of files with an underscore in the file name, but I need to
> replace all instances of the underscore in the name with a period.
>
> Example:
>
> This_Is_The_Current_File_Name changes to This.Is.The.Current.File.Name
>
> Thanks
> --
> Scott Johnson
> scott.a.johnson@gmail.com
>
woot nevermind. Just got my first shell script figured out....

for i in *
do
mv $i `echo $i | tr "_" "."`
done

-- 
Scott Johnson
scott.a.johnson@gmail.com
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