Re: [Help-bash] Script Not Working

[Dennis Williamson]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 1:41 PM, nick <address@hidden> wrote:

> So close it also works this is the output.
>
> Execution of 'oldfiles2 testdir':
>
>
> Files in 'testdir' after 'oldfiles2' was run:
> file1.old  file2.old  file3old.old  file4.old
>
> Error: 'for' does not seem to loop only through required filenames
>
> On 14-11-14 02:38 PM, Dennis Williamson wrote:
> > for file in "$1"/*
> > do
> >   if [[ $file != *.old ]]
> >   then
> >     mv -- "$file" "$file.old"
> >   fi
> > done
>

That looks like it worked to me.

file1  file2.old  file3old  file4

became

file1.old  file2.old  file3old.old  file4.old

How is that incorrect?

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