Re: mv * small_*

  On 05/28/10 19:15, John Gill wrote:
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:12 PM, James<[email protected]>  wrote:
>
>>   On 05/28/10 15:56, 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?
>> I googled the answer. :-)
>>
> List etiquette: if you ask a question, then find the answer yourself, it is
> polite to share your answer.
>
> There is also a neat little program to do this sort of thing:  mmv
>
> John
for f in *; do mv -i "$f" "small_${f%}"; done

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