asked on 1/6/2013

Need to find and replace files without extension.

I have a bunch of text files in a directory that do not have the .txt extension... what is a god one liner to add the .txt extension to these files but if the files already have and extension of some sort omit those?

Linux Shell Scripting Regular Expressions

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woolmilkporc

1/6/2013

Member_2_6492660_1

1/6/2013

I found this

http://scofaq.aplawrence.com/FAQ_scotec1rename.html

Hope this helps

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