Re: auto-change filenames

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On  5 Oct, Brian Servis wrote about "Re: auto-change filenames"
> *- On  5 Oct, Brian J. Stults wrote about "auto-change filenames"
>> Could someone give me a sample script (perhaps bash or sed) to change a
>> group of filenames from their original name to the same name preceeded
>> by an exclamation point.  For example, changing the following filenames
>> from:
>> 
>> test1.cnm
>> test2.cnm
>> 
>> to 
>> 
>> !test1.cnm
>> !test2.cnm
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
> 
> Install the mmv package and read the man page, for your example above
> the following should work.
> 
> mmv "*.cnm" "!#1.cnm"
> 

Let me change the above to:

mmv "*.cnm" "\!#1.cnm"  

The ! needs to be escaped from whatever mmv is using to rename files.

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