Want to do this: cp *1.dbf *2.dbf

Shell Programming and Scripting
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This is not a valid command, but you get the idea: "cp *1.dbf *2.dbf"
I need to change the 1 to 2 on many file names.
Using csh. Any ideas?
MM

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Must you use csh? This is easy with bash, for example:

# for file in *1.dbf; do cp ${file} `echo "${file}" | sed 's/1\.dbf/2\.dbf/'`; done

I don't use csh (or at least haven't for a long time) but a similar for loop using csh syntax will do the job.

Cheers,
ZB

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Recent versions of bash allow for parameter pattern substitution; maybe other shells do as well:

for i in *1.dbf; do echo $i "--->" ${i/1./2.}; done
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That works! No problem to use bash. Thanks for the help.
MM