[wplug] changing extensions?

[Mike Griffin]

Point noted.

Best to keep with my first example, which will work in every instance.


-Mike



-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-bounces+mike=nbi.edu at wplug.org
[mailto:wplug-bounces+mike=nbi.edu at wplug.org] On Behalf Of James O'Kane
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:16 PM
To: General user list
Subject: Re: [wplug] changing extensions?

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Mike Griffin wrote:

>
> If you forget 'basename', remember you can use 'cut' in pretty much 
> the same fashion.
>
>   for i in *.htm; do mv $i `ls $i | cut -d\. -f1`.html; done

$ ls
odd.name.htm
$ for i in *.htm; do mv $i `ls $i | cut -d\. -f1`.html; done $ ls odd.html