rename v. script

[Yuandan Zhang]

THUFIR HAWAT wrote:

>given:
>
>bash-3.00$ ls -al
>total 984
>drwxr-xr-x   2 thufir thufir  4096 May 16 02:18 .
>drwx------  15 thufir thufir  4096 May 16 02:18 ..
>-rw-r--r--   1 thufir thufir 12354 May 14 22:30 1151154
>-rw-r--r--   1 thufir thufir 12955 May 14 22:16 1199229
>-rw-r--r--   1 thufir thufir 13639 May 14 22:22 1238181
>-rw-r--r--   1 thufir thufir 13996 May 14 22:24 1268816
>-rw-r--r--   1 thufir thufir 12176 May 14 22:37 1276032
>...
>
>and then:
>
>bash-3.00$ mv 1151154 1151154.html
>bash-3.00$ mv 1199229 1199229.html
>bash-3.00$ mv 1238181 1238181.html
>
>each file can be changed.  however, there are many files and that is
>very tedious.  can the above three commands (or 50, or 100) be written
>with a single rename command?
>
>thanks,
>
>Thufir
>
>  
>
#!/bin/sh
for a in `/usr/bin/ls `
  do
  b=$a.html
 mv $a $b
done