Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 00:55:42 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: "Dimitrios T." <midios3@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: batch; the other way around Message-ID: <392A397E.12EA745B@gorean.org> References: <20000522133131.95845.qmail@hotmail.com>
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"Dimitrios T." wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> I like to follow the posts of this mailing-list, I think it's yet another
> way of learning FreeBSD. I liked the following solution of adding a 'txt'
> "extension" (pardon my DOS :-) after a listing of files:
>
> for f in *
> do
> mv $f $f.txt
> done
>
> Usefull, indeed. But how can one remove the 'txt' from those files (renaming
> them back to the original filename).
>
> Is this possible?
Well, the answer is in the man page for sh, but it's not 100% obvious.
So, I'll tell you, if you promise to go READ the man page to figure out
why it works. :)
for FILE in *.txt; do
mv $FILE ${FILE%\.txt}
done
Doug
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