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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Need a file renaming facility
Message-ID: <7772@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 27 Apr 88 15:29:03 GMT
References: <3564@fluke.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <3564@fluke.COM> inc@tc.fluke.COM (Gary Benson) writes:
>Now I want to rename all those ".pre" files to the same name without ".pre".

What I usually do in such circumstances is:
for i in *.pre; do mv $i `basename $i .pre`; done