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dbowles

05-09-2005 04:02 PM

Renaming Multiple Files with a "." on the end of the filename

I am trying to port several thousand files from a linux workstation to a windows workstation. The windows workstation refuses to work with files that have a "." at the end of the filename. I have tried to write a shell script but it does not seem to work. Is there an easier way to remove the "." at the end of the filename or do am I writing my regular expression wrong?

for i in `ls *.`; do
t=`echo i$ | sed 's/$.*$/\1/'`
mv $i $t
done

Thanks,

David B.

Hko	05-09-2005 04:28 PM

Code:

for i in *. ; do

        t=`echo $i | sed 's/\.$//'`

        mv $i $t

done

Or, a little smaller and faster, but bash-only:

Code:

for i in *. ; do

        mv $i ${i%.}

done

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