In my dir there are files like

a.xml
b.xml
abnc.xml
12.abc.xml
12.anc.sfoioi.xml

I need to remove .xml from all the files

Is there any direct way without using any for/do loop

Right now i am using
for file in *
do
newfile=${file%.xml}
mv file $newfile
done

Please let me know if there is any direct way in one line without any loop

for f in *.xml ; do mv $f ${f%.xml} ; done

gets it in one line...still a loop though.

ls -1| awk -F ".xml" '{print "mv ", $1".xml",$1}' | ksh

Check if it works.

hey kapilraj
that was really kool man ...

thanks a lot ...

That has a bug though it does'nt hurt.

A neat one would be

ls -1 *.xml | awk -F ".xml" '{print "mv ", $1".xml",$1}'

bash-2.03$ ls -1
TEST.xml.123
TEST2.ABC.xml
TEST2.ABC.xml.123
bash-2.03$

bash-2.03$ ls -1| awk -F".123" '{print $1}'
TEST
TEST2
TEST2
bash-


How can i get output as
TEST.xml
TEST2.ABC
TEST2.ABC.xml

even though i gave -F as .123 but it always take as . (not considering 123 after dot)

never mind, i use nawk instead of awk and it worked fine (i am using SUN OS)
oh HP awk worked fine