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» ssh proxy forwarding
» Counts files in the current directory and subdirectory
» Create a Terminal Calculator
» swap files
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To change the extension on a group of files using only bash builtins and mv:
for i in *.txt; do mv $i ${i%%.txt}.html; done
for i in *.txt; do mv "$i" "${i%%.txt}".html; done
also see: http://www.shell-fu.org/lister.php?id=27