Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 11:19:45 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: James Kalmadge <kalmadg@banet.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: omething simple (sorry) Message-ID: <19990307115349.A62982@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <36E22131.2781E494@banet.net> References: <199903041306.NAA06501@primrose.csv.warwick.ac.uk> <36E22131.2781E494@banet.net>
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James Kalmadge wrote:
> I don't know about mmv but 'basename' definitely won't work.
Why not, have you actually read the manual?
BASENAME(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual BASENAME(1)
NAME
basename, dirname - return filename or directory portion of pathname
SYNOPSIS
basename string [suffix]
dirname string
DESCRIPTION
Basename deletes any prefix ending with the last slash `/' character pre-
sent in string (after first stripping trailing slashes), and a suffix, if
given.
> for file in *.txt
> do
> cp $file `echo $file | awk -F. '{print $1}'`.old
> done
That won't work if the file name has a dot before the .txt, part.1.txt
and part.2.txt for example.
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