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Rename file extension in script
Name: hismail Date: May 19, 2008 at 00:33:29 Pacific OS: Linux Redhat CPU/Ram: 4gb/2/gb Product: HP
Comment:
Hi, I would like to rename files in a directory. for eg: ls -ltr *.bup.* would give a result of: ma.bup.Wednesday hw.bup.Wednesday etc I need to trim the last field i.e "Wednesday" to just ma.bup automatically everyday
Name: nails Date: May 19, 2008 at 13:33:39 Pacific
Reply:
One way is to use the ksh/bash pattern matching operators. Change the cp to mv once you get the script working the way you want:
#!/bin/ksh
f=ma.bup.wed
v=${f%.*}
cp $f $v
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Response Number 2
Name: hismail Date: May 19, 2008 at 23:43:18 Pacific
Reply:
Hi Nails I tried this: for f in *.Friday do mv $f ${f%*.} done but all it does it is puts an extra .bup after my original file?? I need to trim the file to just have "ma.bup" & not ma.bup.Friday.bup
thanks Hamim
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Response Number 3
Name: nails Date: May 20, 2008 at 08:37:15 Pacific
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