At 12:58 AM +0200 6/4/05, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: >On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 10:19:54AM +0200, Juan L. Pastor wrote: >> >> I need a script to rename several files to docXXX.txt where XXX is a >> number I can define, for example 054, and the following files will be >> renamed as 055, 056,... Can you help? > >rename doc "" doc???.txt > >if I understand you correctly. I don't think you understand. In his example, the resulting file name should still contain "doc". He didn't give an example of an input file name, so, technically, I don't understand either. I don't know if the files are all named "doc.txt" now, or have distinct names such as "alice", "betty", and "cathy", or what. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>