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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Replacing duplicated extensions, like .rtf.rtf Post 302923940 by Corona688 on Wednesday 5th of November 2014 10:15:56 AM
Old 11-05-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by OmarKN
Hi and good day,

[i have Mac OS 10.9.5 and bash]

In Terminal I tried
Code:
mv *.rtf.rtf *.rtf

to get rid of double rtf extensions ( which came about from some other process),
but this doesn't work.

I don't know why.
Remember two important things. First, that * does not get passed into programs, the shell handles that before mv even runs. Second, that mv works like
Code:
mv source [source, source, ...] destination

Imagine you have these three files in the folder:

file1.rtf file2.rtf.rtf file3.rtf

Your command will expand to:

mv (all files matching *.rtf.rtf) (all files matching *.rtf)

which would be:

mv file2.rtf.rtf file1.rtf file2.rtf.rtf file3.rtf

...and then, mv gets run, with those exact arguments.

If it actually did what you asked, it would destroy most of them, leaving only one survivor named 'file3.rtf'. Fortunately it will refuse to rename multiple files, only move them.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

sgml2rtf

SGML2RTF(1)						      General Commands Manual						       SGML2RTF(1)

NAME

       sgml2rtf - create RTF output from a LinuxDoc DTD SGML source file

SYNOPSIS

       sgml2rtf [generic_option...] [--twosplit] file[.sgml]

DESCRIPTION

       sgml2rtf is an old and obsoleted form of the rtf converter command of LinuxDoc-Tools.  It is recommended to switch the new form linuxdoc -B
       rtf now.  It converts a LinuxDoc DTD SGML source file to RTF, the Rich Text Tormat used by the Microsoft Windows help system.  Output  will
       appear  in  the top level file file.rtf and file-n.rtf for each section, where file is the name of the SGML source file.  The RTF output is
       tailored for compilation by the Windows Help Compiler (hc31.exe).

       The attribute/value pair "output=rtf" is set for conditionals.

OPTIONS

       sgml2rtf accepts all the generic options described in linuxdoc(1),and:

       --twosplit, -2
	      Splits files both at n. sections and n.m. subsections

       file   The SGML source file, named either file or file.sgml

FILES

       Many files and executables in /usr/share/linuxdoc-tools and /usr/bin are used.

BUGS

       None known.

AUTHOR

       Originally written by Steve Tynor <tynor@atlanta.twr.com>, and Cees de Groot <cg@pobox.com> for sgml-tools (v1).  Currently  maintained	by
       Taketoshi Sano <sano@debian.org> for Linuxdoc-Tools.

SEE ALSO

       linuxdoc(1), sgml2html(1), sgml2info(1), sgml2latex(1), sgml2lyx(1), sgml2txt(1), sgmlcheck(1).

								    16 May 2000 						       SGML2RTF(1)
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