07-19-2007
remove file extension
Hi ALL,
I'm new to this forum.
Thanks and congrats to all for their great efforts building this site simply superb for all unix administrators.
My requirement is to remove extensions of the files in the current directory. I'm doing it using below script which is working but i think it is very inefficient as i use lot of variables.I want to get done by avoiding usage of tempfile file and any other temp files being used.
#!/usr/bin/bash
ls -l |awk '{print $9}' >/list
cat /list |while read line
do
echo $line >/tempfile
first=`cut -f1 -d'.' /tempfile`
echo $first >>/output.txt
mv $line $first
done
Thanks
Praveen RK
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echo(1B) SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands echo(1B)
NAME
echo - echo arguments to standard output
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/echo [-n] [argument]
DESCRIPTION
echo writes its arguments, separated by BLANKs and terminated by a NEWLINE, to the standard output.
echo is useful for producing diagnostics in command files and for sending known data into a pipe, and for displaying the contents of envi-
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For example, you can use echo to determine how many subdirectories below the root directory (/) is your current directory, as follows:
o echo your current-working-directory's full pathname
o pipe the output through tr to translate the path's embedded slash-characters into space-characters
o pipe that output through wc -w for a count of the names in your path.
example% /usr/bin/echo "echo $PWD | tr '/' ' ' | wc -w"
See tr(1) and wc(1) for their functionality.
The shells csh(1), ksh(1), and sh(1), each have an echo built-in command, which, by default, will have precedence, and will be invoked if
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OPTIONS
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ATTRIBUTES
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SEE ALSO
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