From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat+Lists/Zsh/users@luomat.peak.org>
To: gsker@lenti.med.umn.edu
Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: help with 'rename' function
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 98 11:53:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199806121553.LAA15720@luomat.peak.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.95.980612084320.12190A-100000@x139-110.med.umn.edu>
Author: Gerald Skerbitz <gsker@x139-110.med.umn.edu>
Original-Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 08:44:34 -0500 (CDT)
Message-ID:
<Pine.SOL.3.95.980612084320.12190A-100000@x139-110.med.umn.edu>
> Am I missing something?
> This seems deceptively easy
>
> for a in *.THIS
> mv $a $a:r.THAT
HRm.... I've never seen the :r before.
Where can I learn more about the "variable:X" usage?
TjL
ps -- yes your answer works just fine for what I want
next parent reply other threads:[~1998-06-12 15:57 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <Pine.SOL.3.95.980612084320.12190A-100000@x139-110.med.umn.edu>
1998-06-12 15:53 ` Timothy J Luoma [this message]
1998-06-12 16:21 ` Geoff Wing
1998-06-12 8:15 Timothy J Luoma
1998-06-12 9:09 ` Peter Stephenson
1998-06-14 20:05 ` Paul Lew
1998-06-12 9:14 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-06-12 9:26 ` Zefram
1998-06-12 9:55 ` Hannu Koivisto
1998-06-12 23:07 ` Thomas Köhler
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