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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to trim the file names? Post 302890753 by Corona688 on Friday 28th of February 2014 11:06:53 AM
Old 02-28-2014
Oh, you just want to remove it from a string, not change the filename. That's much easier.

Code:
STRING="asdf.filepart"
echo "${STRING/.filepart/}"

You can put it in the loop above to do many.

Or you can also do it this way in awk:

Code:
ls *.filepart | awk -F"." '{ NF=(NF-1) } 1'

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