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crouse
 PostPosted: Tue May 17, 2005 8:05 pm   
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Code:
#!/bin/sh
for file in *.xyz; do
  newname=`echo $file | sed -e 's/\.xyz//'`
  mv -f $file $newname
done


replace .xyz with the name of the extension you want to remove...
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crouse
 PostPosted: Tue May 17, 2005 8:05 pm   
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shorter version....... a one liner cut-n-paste into the terminal

Code:

for filename in *.xyz; do mv $filename ${filename%.xyz}; done
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crouse
 PostPosted: Tue May 17, 2005 8:06 pm   
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this should remove all three letter extensions from all files in the directory with a three letter extension :)

Code:

for filename in *.???; do mv $filename ${filename:0:${#filename}-4}; done




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