Hi Folks,

I just wanted to add something to the original problem,
What will i do if, i am not sure about the length of the file name, but only one thing that i want to remove only the last extension.
e.g. abcdXXXXXX.pqrXXXXX.asc (X is any character)
I want to trim only .asc (or,watever) so that resultant file name would be like abcdXXXXX.pqrXXXXX

this,

Here's a more complex challenge (though not an arbitrary one)...

A user has many files with names that are too long, and they must be truncated to n characters, however the first n characters are the same. Can someone post a script that truncates to n-k characters and then counts up with k digits or uses k random characters, so as to avoid overwriting files?

Example:

really-long-filename-a.dat
really-long-filename-b.dat

Would be converted to:

really-long-fi_001.dat
really-long fi_002.dat

or

really-long-fi_vj3.dat
really-long-fi_w4p.dat


Another piece of code that would be very useful (and simpler I imagine) would be something that simply identifies which filenames located within a specified part of the filesystem have names in excess of n characters. Seems like a find piping into grep should do the trick. Some use of the {n,} operator would be involved... never had occasion to get my feet that wet with regexes.

Cheers!

Well that was easy enough...

An intelligent truncator would still be nifty though.