Re: mv * small_*

Shawn H Corey <[email protected]> Fri, 28 May 2010 16:13:14 -0400

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On 10-05-28 03:56 PM, James wrote:
>    I want to prepend 'small_' to a bunch of files and then resize them
> with image magic.
> Does anyone know how to do regex with mv?

for f in *
do
   n=`echo $f|sed -e 's/^/small_/'`
   echo mv $f $n
done

If it looks good, remove "echo" in "echo mv..."


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