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increment a variable inside a for loop to rename all text files that start with a certain string.
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| for files in old*.txt | |
| do | |
| ((i++)) | |
| mv $files $(echo $files | sed -E 's/[0-9]+\.txt//')OLDOLD$i.txt | |
| done |
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