Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 06:45:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com> To: "Dimitrios T." <midios3@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: I've tried them all. They all work :) Message-ID: <XFMail.000524064544.conrads@home.com> In-Reply-To: <20000523133922.31498.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On 23-May-00 Dimitrios T. wrote:
>
> And about chopping off the .txt extension:
>
>>Darren Wyn Rees <merlin@netlink.co.uk> adviced:
>
>>for f in *
>>do
>>FNEW=`echo $f | sed -e 's/\.txt$//'`
>> mv $f $FNEW
>>done
>
> This one looks more mysterious than previous suggestions
> ( like for example: do mv $f ${f%%.txt} done )
> but works just fine, all of the same :) Thanks Darren!
>
> I think I better go and look at sed's man-page once more..
Actually, there's an easier way:
for f in *
do
mv $f `basename $f .txt`
done
man basename for more info.
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