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From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com>
To: "Dimitrios T." <midios3@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: I've tried them all. They all work :)
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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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Conrad Sabatier
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