Cory Petkovsek wrote:
> In dos I could type in "ren *.php3 *.php" and rename all the extentions of a glob of
>files. In linux, "mv *.php3 *.php" does not work the same. Anyway to do this?
>
> I thought about
> for i in *.php3 ; do mv $i ... But I don't know how to delete a character from $i.
>I can append with $i.php and the like, but that would give me 'index.php3.php'..
The sh way would be:
for i in *.php3
do
mv $i "`basename \"$i\" 3`"
done
basename is a handy gadget -- read the man page. See also dirname.
Also, there is a program in the Perl source distribution, eg/rename,
which is a more clever rename script. Using that script, you could
write:
rename 's/3$//' *.php3
I don't use rename; it feels too much like juggling chainsaws.
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