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From: Darren Wyn Rees <merlin@netlink.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: batch; the other way around
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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.
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