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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Edit names of files in a directory Post 302843206 by Error404 on Monday 12th of August 2013 11:05:11 AM
Old 08-12-2013
I haven't tried stuff yet (cuz I am not sure how to start the command), been looking online for similar questions, found none yet. I am using a bash shell.

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Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
Try
Code:
for FILE in *; do echo mv $FILE ${FILE%%.*}; done

Should this exceed your LINE_MAX, try
Code:
ls * | while read FILE; do  echo mv $FILE ${FILE%%.*}; done


Yes that worked Smilie, I should keep on revising what I know in Linux. Many Thanks mate Smilie
 

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named-checkconf(1M)					  System Administration Commands				       named-checkconf(1M)

NAME
named-checkconf - named configuration file syntax checking tool SYNOPSIS
named-checkconf [-v] [-t directory] filename DESCRIPTION
The named-checkconf utility checks the syntax, but not the semantics, of a named configuration file. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -t directory Change the root directory to directory so that include directives in the configuration file are processed as if run by a named configuration whose root directory has been similarly changed. -v Print the version of the named-checkconf program and exit. OPERANDS
The following operands are supported: filename The name of the configuration file to be checked. If not specified, it defaults to /etc/named.conf. EXIT STATUS
0 No errors were detected. 1 An error was detected. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | |Availability |SUNWbind9 | |Interface Stability |External | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
named(1M), named.conf(4), attributes(5) BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual NOTES
Source for BIND9 is available in the SUNWbind9S package. SunOS 5.10 15 Dec 2004 named-checkconf(1M)
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