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From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>
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To: "Dimitrios T." <midios3@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: batch; the other way around
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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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