Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Need a file renaming facility
Message-ID: <10612@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 27 Apr 88 18:03:10 GMT
References: <3564@fluke.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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  As long as the rename is the way you describe, "rename a file with a
suffix to be the same name without the siffix" the solution is easy. It
used sh (or ksh) as written:
	for src in *.suffix		# all names of this type
	do
	 dest=`basename $src .suffix`	# strip the suffix
	 mv $src $dest			# and move the file
	done

  I don't have access to a pure BSD system to see if basename is there;
it's in Ultrix and SunOS which are as close as I come.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me