Hello

Im pretty useless at file manipulation and this one is really simple.
If anyone can help greatly appreciated, this is my achilles heal.

Multiple files with the same extension,
I just want to end up without the extension.
before
log1.txt
log2.txt
log3.txt
after
log1
log2
log3

Thanks

mv log1.txt log1

Take your pick. Observe I use nawk because my platform is solaris 7:

# ksh patterns:

ls log*txt |
while read x
do
var=${x%%.txt}
echo $var
done

echo ""
# using awk:
ls log*txt |
while read x
do
var=`echo $x|nawk ' { gsub(".txt",""); print $0 } '`
echo $var
done

Regards Nails

Or you could try something like

#!/bin/ksh

for f in *.txt
do
mv "$f" "${f%.*}"
done

Thanks guys.

Awk/nawk no problem

Cheers

Jonob

assuming you're using any kind of shell with myname=/aaa.b/b/c/file.d.ext :

csh# echo $myname:r
sh# csh -f -c "set m=$myname; echo \$m:r"
sh# echo $myname|sed -e 's/\(.*\)\..*$/\1/'
sh# echo $myname|gawk -F. '{for (i=1;iNF-1;i++) {printf("%s.",$i);} print $i}'
ksh# echo ${myname%.*}