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Unity/Doing it to a group of files 



How to do the same thing to a bunch of Unix files:

To rename all of the files in a directory so that the names are
prefixed with a specific string... change all files so that their
names are junk.whatever.it.was.before:

foreach i (*)
  mv $i junk.$i
end
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To rename a bunch of arbitrarily named files in the current
directory so that they are named 1.xyz, 2.xyz...:

cd junk
ls

file_a  file_z

foreach i (*)
  foreach? @ c++
  foreach? mv $i $c.xyz
  foreach? end

ls
1.xyz  2.xyz


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