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[Francesco_13]

Hi,
i have many files with bad extentions.

File.fmb.fmx.fmx

I need to mv all file to right name file.fmx

How i can do it for change all names ?

for i in `ls *.fmb.fmx.fmx`
do
echo change Form $i ....
???????
done
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Thanks.
Best regards.
Francesco

[Jean-Luc Oudart · Accepted solution]

If I understand your query

for i in `ls *.fmb.fmx.fmx`
do
FILE=$(echo $i | cut -f1 -d".")
mv $i ${FILE}.fmx
done

[Mark Grant]

for i in `ls *.fmb.fmx.fmx`
do
echo change Form $i ....
mv $i `basename $i ".fmb.fmx.fmx"`
done

[Mark Grant]

Whoops sorry.

SHould be

for i in `ls *.fmb.fmx.fmx`
do
mv $i `basename $i .fmb.fmx.fmx`.fmx
done

[Anupam Anshu_1]

Hi Francesco,

You can use the script below:

==============================
for i in `ls *.fmb.fmx.fmx`
do
file=`echo $i | cut -f1 -d"."`
mv $i $file.fmx
done
==============================

HTH,

Anshu

[Waldemar Rosinski]

for OLDNAME in *.fmb.fmx.fmx
do
NEWNAME=`echo $OLDNAME| sed s/fmb.fmx.//`
mv $OLDNAME $NEWNAME
done

[Tapas Jha]

Hi,

Or you can use awk like below:

for i in `ls *.fmb.fmx.fmx`
do
FILE=`echo $i|awk -F"." '{print $1}'`
mv $i $FILE.fmx
done


Rgds
Tapas

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

# perl -MFile::Copy -e'for(<*.fmx>){$f=$_;s/(\.fm[bx])*\.fmx$/.fmx/;$f eq $_ or move($f,$_)}'

will move

aa.fmb.fmx.fmx => aa.fmx
bb.fmx.fmx => bb.fmx
cc.fmb.fmx => cc.fmx
dd.fmx.fmb.fmx.fmx.fmb.fmb.fmx => dd.fmx
ee.fmx => ee.fmx (unchanged)
ff.fmb => ff.fmb (unchanged)
etc

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn