remove extension

[Oliver_39]

hi
I need a script to rename myfile.dat to myfile
there are many of these files with the same extension

thanks

[Rick Garland · Accepted solution]

for filedat in `ls *.dat`
do
shortname=`echo $filedat | awk -F. '{print $1}'`
mv $filedat $shortname
done

[Oliver_39]

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