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From: rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Need a file renaming facility
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Date: 3 May 88 20:07:14 GMT
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   From: Gary Benson <inc@tc.fluke.COM>

   Hello,

Good morning, Mister Benson, I see you're doing well...

   Now I want to rename all those ".pre" files to the same name without ".pre".

As usual, Doug Gwyn posted the quickest, most succinct, and most universal
solution (I do say something nice about him every once in awhile :-). Some
of the other solutions that were posted were incredibly unwieldy, and their
posters should rethink their approach to the problem. Repent heathens!

However, for those of us with the csh, there is yet another solution:

	foreach x (*.pre)
		mv $x $x:r
	end

This may be typed directly into the shell, but only works with suffixes
delimited with dots. Multiple dots work, so `set x=a.b.c; echo $x:r'
yields `a.b'. You may add the -f or -i flags directly to mv if desired.

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