On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 01:54, Thomas Deutsch wrote: > Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 23:00, bascule wrote: > > > basename will remove trailing suffixes: > > > mv $i $(basename $i .OK) > > > this removes '.OK' from the end of filenames but nowhere else > > > > > > bascule > > > > > > On Monday 13 Oct 2003 9:15 am, Brian Parish wrote: > > > > > > > for i in *.OK; do mv "$i" `echo $i | tr -d '.OK'`;done; > > > > > > > > removes the .OK just fine, but also removes ".", "O" and "K" wherever > > > > they occur. > > > > That's great, except that it seems that I need another scripting 101 > > lesson. > > > > Based on the above I would have thought that: > > > > #!/bin/bash > > for i in *.OK; do mv $i $(basename $i .OK) > > > > would do it, but I get: > > > > line 3: syntax error: unexpected end of file > > > > Do I have too many dollars or something (this has never been a problem > > before ;-) > > I think you must write "done" in a new line at the end. > > Greetings from Switzerland > > Thomas
Thanks Thomas, Like I said - scripting 101! Works like a charm now. cheers Brian
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