[OS X TeX] batch file renaming

[Justin C. Walker]

On Apr 17, 2006, at 19:34 , Themis Matsoukas wrote:

> ...this is not entirely OT:
>
> I want to rename a bunch of files from foo.EPS to foo.eps, so that  
> I can open them in TeXShop and save them as pdf. What's a quick way  
> to do it? I could open the files in Preview and save them as pdf  
> but it prompts me each time where I want the pdf saved and that's a  
> chore, since I have quite a few files to convert. On the other  
> hand, TeXShop saves the pdf file automatically making the  
> conversion easier, except that it does not recognize the  
> capitalized extension .EPS. Hence my need for a quick way to rename  
> files. I found a script in Library/Scripts/Finder Scripts/ that  
> almost does what I wanted, but I had to change the extension first  
> from .EPS to .whatever and then to .eps.
>
> Is there a more elegant way?

Depends on what you mean by 'elegant' :-}  For me, this fills the bill:

I'm using 'bash' as my shell, and there is a way to do the same thing  
in tcsh/csh:

for i in  *.EPS
do
echo === $i ===
j=`basename $i .EPS`
mv $i $j.eps
done

The quotes around the 'basename' command are "back quotes" (location  
depends on keyboard; I'm not sure they are on every keyboard).

The 'echo' command is just to verify what files are being modified,  
so when something goes wrong :-}, I can figure out what and where.

Regards,

Justin

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