[OS X TeX] batch file renaming

[George Dorner]

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On Apr 18, 2006, at 4:20 AM, Peter Breitfeld wrote:

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> Am 18. Apr 2006 um 04:34 schrieb Themis Matsoukas:
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>> ...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?
>>
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> On my homepage (see signature) I have some renaming utilities. The  
> script "rename" will do what you want.
>
> Gruß Peter
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