Comments on: Quick File Copy on File Name with Sample Extension

By: rschmutz

rschmutz — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:48:53 +0000

personally I like the bash (and ksh?) curly-brace extensions (albeit the basename might be a shell-internal command):

for f in *sample; do mv $f ${f/sample.//}; done

granted, it might not be that readable but you get used to it 🙂
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rs

takizo — Fri, 21 May 2010 00:13:36 +0000

thanks mate for the great tips!

chfl4gs_ — Thu, 20 May 2010 16:21:22 +0000

shorter one… assuming we have .sample files from installation

for f in *sample ; do mv $f `basename $f sample`cfg; done