Renaming Files on Hoary

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:16:04AM +1000, Serg Belokamen wrote:
> for i in *.JPG; do mv ${i} `basename '.JPG' "${i}.jpg"`;done

Sure. But what I meant is, suppose you want to encode this
in a script (say, 'myrename') that allows you to do things
like

rename *.JPG *.jpg

I just don't see that being possible when the shell's doing
the globbing.

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