At 6:26 PM -0400 5/4/06, Mauricio Vergara Ereche wrote: >Hi Roger! > >El Jueves, 4 de Mayo de 2006 18:13, Roger escribio: >[...] >> Because this is a new installation (I have customized my monitor >> settings and made a static IP address), a guess is that I just want all >> the .rpmnew files installed -- and maybe the existing files renamed to >> .rpmold just in case. > >Maybe you can use a bash-script to do that... Something like: >for file in $(find / -name '*.rpmnew'); do > cp ${file/rpmnew} ${file/rpmnew/rpmold} ; # to do the backup > mv $file ${file/rpmnew}; # to use the .rpmnew >done ... Another WAG: are those .rpmnew files different from the base files? Sometimes they're identical. Use diff to find out. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>