Re: [Help-bash] how to bulk rename files

[lxnf98mm]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2012, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 04:06:05PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> > they are in a single directory
> > and why not find . -type f ! -name '*.*' -exec mv '{}' '{}'.txt \;
>
> That won't work with all versions of find.  You cannot assume that
> {}.txt will work.  It works in GNU find, but not in HP-UX find, for
> example.
>
> imadev:~$ find .bashrc -exec echo {}x \;
> {}x
>
> arc3:~$ find .bashrc -exec echo {}x \;
> .bashrcx

and this is why i ask first