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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replacing multiple extensions Post 302530185 by yazu on Monday 13th of June 2011 07:57:56 AM
Old 06-13-2011
Code:
% cat testfile
1.txt.csv.txt.csv.csv.txt.csv
2.csv.txt.csv.txt.csv.txt

% cat testfile | while read f; do
  echo mv "$f" "${f%%.*}.csv"
done
mv 1.txt.csv.txt.csv.csv.txt.csv 1.csv
mv 2.csv.txt.csv.txt.csv.txt 2.csv

Remove echo if everything is right. ls *.csv* instead of cat testfile.
 

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