Re: A challenge for UNIX wizards

Article: 7917 of alt.hackers
From: chris@stallion.oz.au (Christopher Biggs)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: A challenge for UNIX wizards
Date: 31 May 1995 09:48:47 +1000
Organization: Stallion Technologies, Brisbane, Australia
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Approved: Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set ye free
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In-reply-to: set@oryx.llnl.gov's message of 25 May 1995 06:30:08 GMT
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To: set@oryx.llnl.gov (Sam Trenholme)
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set@oryx.llnl.gov (Sam Trenholme) moved upon the face of the 'Net and
spake thusly:

> Ok guys, is there a way of doing this without using a temporary file:
>
> ls | awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print "mv "$0"
"$1".1"}' > l;chmod 700 l;l;rm l
>
> (The above made a list of files, foo.man, bar.man, etc. have the names
> foo.1, bar.1, etc)
>
Come on!

This is trivial:

for old in *man ; do new=`basename $old .man`.1 ; mv $old $new ; done

ObHack: Making up for SCO's lack of the renice() syscall by patching
the process table on the fly from user-land...

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