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Old 03-18-2008
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Wink One approach, although not sure if basename exists in all unix flavors
The following does a copy; you can change to the move (mv) command

Code:
> cat copy_csv
#! /bin/bash

for i in *.csv
do
  var1=$(basename "$i" .csv)
  cp $i $var1
done