Re: Need script to find root of filename

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From: Tom Christiansen
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 17:10

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From the keyboard of ccsam004@othello.ucdavis.edu (Brian C Hill):
:	#!/usr/bin/ksh	(or wherver you ksh is)
:	for i in *.[0-9]* ; do
:		mv $i ${i%.*}
:	done

:	No long syntactical nightmares, no contracting out of string
:processing services to separate awk, basename, sed, cut and/or other 
:processes, only 3 lines and fast! Good work ksh.

Bah.  The % and # hacks are as much syntactic nightmares as csh's :r
and allies.

--tom
-- 
    Tom Christiansen      tchrist@convex.com      convex!tchrist

	    "AT&T -- anything better is illegal."
		  -- Keith Lofstrom, comp.unix.bsd, "AT&T sues BSDI" thread

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