Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Suppose I have in a directory a certain number of files, >> all terminating with `.txt', and that I want to eliminate >> that suffix from all of them. >> Is there a Unix command, or perhaps a set of commands, >> that can do so?
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > rename 's/\.txt//' *.txt Tim Ruehsen wrote: > I might be a good idea to use > rename 's/\.txt$//' *.txt > (Just a detail). Digby Tarvin wrote: > If I correctly understand what you want to do, a simple > minded way of doing it using two commands and a shell > loop would be: > for i in *.txt ;do > mv $i `basename $i .txt` > done Thanks to all. I adopted Roberto's and Tim's suggestion: it seems to work fine. Cheers, Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
