[ALUG] Problem with 'find' and 'basename'

[MJ Ray]

Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>     find info -name '*.txt' -exec echo `basename {} .txt` \;

I think the backticks are run by the shell before find.

Try:

find info -name '*.txt' | while read filename ; do
  mv -v "$filename" "${filename/%.txt/.rst}"
done

Hope that helps,
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