Need help writing a shell script

[sanman_2]

please help me with this!!

I need to write a shell script that removes the characters given as the second argument from the end of the name of the file given as the first argument. So memo1.sv should rename memo1.sv to memo1.

Thanks for all your kind help!!!!

[John Palmer]

Hi,

A simple script with no error checking follows:-

#!/usr/bin/sh

FILE=${1}
SUFFIX=${2}
NEWFILE=${FILE%${SUFFIX}}

mv ${FILE} ${NEWFILE}
exit

Call it with:-

<scriptname>

Regards,
John

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

Try this:

#!/bin/sh
#
# renames without the last extension.

OLDNAME=$1
NEWNAME=` echo $OLDNAME | awk '{ n=split($1,filen,".")
for (i = 1; i < n ; i++ ) printf filen[i]"." }'`
mv $OLDNAME $NEWNAME

[Rainer_1 · Accepted solution]

#!/sbin/sh
mv $1 $(basename $1 .$2)

call it with ie

<script> file.ext ext

[Rainer_1]

to rename a file with an arbitary extension

#/sbin/sh
mv $1 $(echo $1|sed 's/\(.*\)\..*$/\1/')

[Tommy Palo]

If you want to do it for any filename recursively:

#!/usr/bin/ksh
if [ $# = 0 ]; then
echo "Arg: fileSuffix"
exit
fi
MV=/tmp/mvSuff
echo 'mv $1 $(dirname $1)/$(basename $1 .'"$1"')' > $MV
chmod +x $MV
find . -name "*.$1" -exec $MV {} \;
rm $MV