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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Batch changing file extensions Post 302190404 by danmero on Tuesday 29th of April 2008 03:01:04 PM
Old 04-29-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by cdines
What I want is to say "for all files with a semicolon in the file extension, rename the file to everything to the left of the semicolon".
The foolowing code should do the job.
Code:
for file in `ls ./*\;*`
do
   mv "$file" "${file%;*}"
done

 

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