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Re: A challenge for UNIX wizards


Article: 7882 of alt.hackers
From: seb3@harvey.gte.com (steve belczyk)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: A challenge for UNIX wizards
Date: 25 May 1995 21:20:16 GMT
Organization: GTE Laboratories, Waltham, MA
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I'm no Unix wizard, so I must be missing something.

	#! /bin/sh
	#
	for i in `ls *.man`
	do
		mv $i `basename $i man`1
	done

Just don't have a directory ending with .man!  (Or use find instead of
ls.)

- steve belczyk



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