Re: copy with extension rename

Karl Berry wrote:
>     simplest way to copy and rename all *.a files to *.b   ???
> 
> Different people will have different answers.  What I do is:
> 
> rename.pl 's/a$/b/' *.a
> 
> where rename.pl is the appended Perl script (it exists in many versions
> around the net).  This version is slightly modified by me from lwall's
> original to print the successful renames.
> 
> karl
> 
> 
Thanks,
I ended up using make to do the job since I am compiling now anyway. 
This is under cygwin and I don't want to install another 5MB just to 
rename some files.

I am really surprised it can't be done easily with cp, since with DOS 
its just copy *.c *.o.