Question on rename command

[Adam Khoob]

Good afternoon,

is there any way to rename a file with the current file name but just remove part of it.

for example, I want all files which end with dev to be renamed and remove "dev" substring.

thanks so much for any help.

[Rouben Rostamian]

This one will do until a more clever one comes along:

find . -name '*.dev' -print0 | xargs -0 -I % sh -c 'mv % ` basename % .dev`'

(I know zero about perl but I can bet that there is a shorter solution in perl.)

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Rouben Rostamian

[Mark Perks]

Hi Rouben! And you too Morty (and Adam)! Hope all is well,

I know less about Perl, and this is not clever but an alternative not
necessarily better, change to the directory where the files are and use
bin/ls;expr instead of find|xargs.

for i in `/bin/ls -1 *.dev`; do j=`expr $i : '\(.*\)'\.dev`; mv $i $j; done


H. Mark Perks, Ph.D. MEYR 549C
Dept of Chemistry and Biochemistry 410 455-2789
UMBC pe...@umbc.edu
Baltimore, MD 21250

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