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Re: HELP ON CP COMMAND
From: |
James Youngman |
Subject: |
Re: HELP ON CP COMMAND |
Date: |
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 19:35:54 +0100 |
On 4/23/06, tamilmarana <address@hidden> wrote:
> IN DOS:
>
> COPY *.GNT *.gnt -> IT COPIES ALL THE FILES WITH EXTENSION *.GNT AS *.gnt
>
> IN linux:
> example:
>
> -RWXR-X--- 1 ROOT ROOT 11093 APR23 08:07 GAE010.GNT
> -RWXR-X--- 1 ROOT ROOT 11094 APR23 08:07 GAE110.GNT
If the above is really the output you are getting, your terminal
(stty) settings are very oddly set up. However, I suspect that this
is not the actual output you are seeing. (in particular, the first
column of the output of "ls" is always lower-case).
You might find it helpful to read
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html and to read
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
> The above files at a stretch to copy in to the same file name but with
> extension *.gnt
>
> i.e. ] cp *.GNT *.gnt - > This is not doing the required
>
> ] echo cp *.GNT *.gnt -> This is not doing the required
>
> ] rename 's/.GNT$/.gnt' *.GNT -> this is not doing the required
>
> Please guide me sirs.
The error message you get when you try the third command points to the problem
address@hidden:~/tmp$ touch GAE010.GNT GAE110.GNT
address@hidden:~/tmp$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 james users 0 2006-04-23 19:28 GAE010.GNT
-rw-r--r-- 1 james users 0 2006-04-23 19:28 GAE110.GNT
address@hidden:~/tmp$ rename 's/.GNT$/.gnt' *.GNT
Substitution replacement not terminated at (eval 1) line 1.
address@hidden:~/tmp$ rename 's/.GNT$/.gnt/' *.GNT
address@hidden:~/tmp$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 james users 0 2006-04-23 19:28 GAE010.gnt
-rw-r--r-- 1 james users 0 2006-04-23 19:28 GAE110.gnt