]> 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..
It's OK giving easy solutions when they are wrong...
% basename blah.txt
blah.txt
%basename /tmp/blah.txt
blah.txt
basename will just strip off the directory and leave the full name of the
file. This isn't what he wants.
dirname does the opposite - strips off the filename and leaves the
directory.
rename is what he wants alright...
% rename .dat "" *.dat
Gary
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