Silly me.. I knew about basename but I forgot that basename accepted
suffix arguments.
Thanks all who replied.
Ed
Brian Coyle wrote:
>
> Ed Centanni wrote:
> >
> > What's the best way -- either by command line or a shell script -- to
> > change a group of files names. EX. change all the files with a
> > specific extension to another name: *.jpeg to *.JPG
> >
> > mv just doesn't seem to cut it.
> > Ed.
>
> How 'bout:
>
> $ for f in *.jpeg ; do mv $f $(basename $f jpeg)JPG ; done
>
> note there is NO DOT in the mv/basename component since basename
> strips the suffix, but not the dot...
>
> HTH!
>
> --
> Redundancy? You can say that again!
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