[NTLUG:Discuss] A quick Bash scripting question

[Johnie Stafford]

>>> On Tue, 7 May 2002 19:01:03 -0500, Courtney Grimland <cgrimland at yahoo.com> said:

 cg> I'm very new to Unix shells so please be gentle.
 cg> I have a directory full of *.xpm's, and I want to rename them all *_32x32.xpm with a q&d Bash script.

 cg> Would anyone be so kind as to give me a hint?  I can't seem to figure out which tools to string together to get this done.


for file in *.xpm
do
        basefile=`basename $file .xpm`
        mv $file ${basefile}_32x32.xpm
done