Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 01:30:28 +0000 From: Darren Wyn Rees <merlin@netlink.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: batch; the other way around Message-ID: <20000523013028.T38637@netlink.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20000522133131.95845.qmail@hotmail.com>; from midios3@hotmail.com on Mon, May 22, 2000 at 01:31:31PM %2B0000 References: <20000522133131.95845.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 01:31:31PM +0000, Dimitrios T. wrote: > 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). for f in * do FNEW=`echo $f | sed -e 's/\.txt$//'` mv $f $FNEW done The above will only delete '.txt' if it appears at the end of the file. Embellish at will... [t|T][x|X][t|T] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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