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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

sindi keesan wrote:

> A former list member wants a script which will add a -1 to every file name
> on a floppy disk.  for i in * ; do `mv i i-1`; done  ???  Should it be ' '
> not ` ` ?

for i in *; do mv $i $i-1; done

No quotes, and use $i to reference a variable. This doesn't discriminate
between directories and regular files.

David