Roger C. Scudder Jr. on Thu, 8 Jul 1999 20:26:51 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] quick solution please


On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Alexander John Batyi wrote:
> 
> for i in *.txt
> do
>   mv $i `basename $i .txt`
> done

Out of all the solutions this is by far the most direct and,
IMHO, the overall best.  It uses a utility that was designed
to do exactly this job which shows the author has a good 
knowledge of the available tools.  Nice work, Alexander!


Roger Scudder


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