On 5/19/05, Mike Klinke <lsomike@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ... > If all the files in the directory are to have the > additional ".html" suffix added then something like > this may do: > for i in *; do mv $i `basename $i`.html; done ... this seems to be the briefest and most common solution. thanks for the addition tip, snipped, for just changing files which begin with a digit, which I will file away. thanks for the input, everyone. -Thufir