On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 08:30:41PM +0200, Ariel Biener wrote:

> shell scripts, and doing:
> 
> ls -1 *.for|awk -F"." '{print "mv "$0" "$1".f"}'|sh

Won't work for filenames with more than one '.' in them:

$ echo "example.what.for" | awk -F"." '{print "mv "$0" "$1".f"}'
mv example.what.for example.f

(Also, even awouchk has a system() function which can be used to
save us from the sh here.)

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