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Old 10-29-2011
Renaming files with weird names
I have hundreds of files with weird names, something like this:

Quote:
Patient34.phy.fna
Patient43.qual.fas
I was wondering how can I rename them all keeping the sampleid and the last extension, something like this:

Quote:
Patient34.fna
Patient43.fas
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
# 2  
Old 10-29-2011
I'm not a sed expert but this works ->
Code:
echo Patient34.phy.fna | sed 's/^\(.*\)\.\(.*\)\.\(.*\)$/\1.\3/'

# 3  
Old 10-29-2011
xbin
It works but I am not quite sure how to use your script with mv so I can rename all my files. Would you mind explaining how to accomplish this task?
# 4  
Old 10-29-2011
Try:
Code:
for i in *;do mv $i ${i%%.*}.${i##*.}; done

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# 5  
Old 10-29-2011
Bartus
Thank you so very much!
# 6  
Old 10-30-2011
Another way to rename file.suffix into file (or file.suffix.suffix into file.suffix) in working directory.
Code:
ls -1  | awk -F"." ' { print "mv "$0" "  "$(basename "$0" ."$NF")" } ' | sh

 
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