when you want to copy or move files to slightly different names (e.g. replacing only one letter in the filename), you can use

1

for i in `ls *`; do cp $i `echo $i | sed "s/search/replace/g"`; done

found on http://www.minihowtos.net/copy-and-rename-multiple-files

This entry was posted on Thursday, August 30th, 2012 at 20:37 and is filed under misc. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.