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Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 15:18:21 +0100 (MET)
From: Reinhold Huber <Reinhold_Huber@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: omething simple (sorry)
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Hello,

Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> James Kalmadge wrote:

>> for file in *.txt
>> do
>> cp $file `echo $file | awk -F. '{print $1}'`.old
>> done

> That won't work if the file name has a dot before the .txt, part.1.txt
> and part.2.txt for example.

For this reason, I'd suggest:

for file in *.txt
do
cp $file `echo $file |sed -e 's/.txt$/.old/'`
done

This should replace any .txt ending without replacing embedded .txt's in
the filename (with the $ in the regexp).

Greetings,
Reinhold Huber



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