8 Jun
2007
8 Jun
'07
12:37 p.m.
Chris G cl@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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