[nflug] file name extensions

[Mark T. Valites]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, eric wrote:

> How would I recurse into sub directories(I'm in bash)
>
> Robert Meyer wrote:
>
>> in bash:
>> for name in `ls <directory of files`; do

Randal Schwartz would probably have a couple things to say if he saw the 
line above:

http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html#ls

In addition, files with spaces in their name would cause problems, and as 
eric writes, it doesn't take into consideration directories.

You probably want to use the 'find' command with the 'exec' arg with 
either mv or the 'rename' utility.

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