[ILUG] Shell substitute regexp

[Chris Higgins <chris.higgins>]

> Bleargh...  basename(1), my friend, basename(1):
> 
>    for i in *.dat ; do mv $i `basename $i .dat` ; done

Bloody hell - where do you get off giving simple straight forward solutions
to problems - this is supposed to be Unix ... you didn't even have one
regexp in your solution.. Pah..

And you did it in one line as well... pathetic..

What you really want to do is :-

ls -l > 1.txt
vi 1.txt

Change each line where it has 
-rw-r--r--    1 chris    staff     2577338 Jul 22 22:28 pres.sdc
to
mv pres.sdc pres

Then add 
 #!/bin/sh
to the top of the file..

Then exit from vi
:q!

Then realising that you didn't save the file, start from scratch.
exit vi this time using 
:wq

Now, you have a script to change all your file names for you.

Then 
./1.txt

When it complains that it's not executable, try
chmod +x 1.txt

and then

./1.txt


And presto chango - all your files will change name for you.


See - no messing with silly things like basename... next thing you'll
be telling people about dirname

> 
> Later,
> Kenn
> 
> 
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** Chris Higgins                         e: chris.higgins at horizon.ie **
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** Chris Higgins                         e: chris.higgins at horizon.ie **
** Technical Business Development        tel: +353-1-6204916            **
** Horizon Technology Group              fax: +353-1-6204949            **