dot filenames

[Avery_1]

how to remove the dot filenames with extension and null extension?

for e.g file.txt to file

file. to file

[Ramkumar Devanathan]

hi,

$ basename file.txt ".txt"
$ basename file. "."

The above would work as long as you know the extension.

else, try this -

echo "file.txt" | awk -F '.' '{for (i=1;i
HTH.
- ramd.

[Avery_1]

do you know how to use sed in Bourne shell to remove the dot?

[Ramkumar Devanathan · Accepted solution]

Sophia,

this seems to work for me -

$ echo "filename.txt" | sed 's/^\(.*\)\..*/\1/'
filename

$ echo "filename.txt.gz" | sed 's/^\(.*\)\..*/\1/'
filename.txt

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- ramd.

[John Meissner]

do you mean a script to rename
file.txt
to
file?

filz=$(ls | grep ".txt")
for i in $filz
do
mv $i $(echo $i | cut -d . -f 1)
done