[X-Unix] What unix command ?

[Xavier Noria]

On Sep 26, 2005, at 20:24, Richard Nagle wrote:

> Looking for a unix command's that can do the following:
>
> inside a folder on my desktop, there are txt documents,
> that I need to fix the file names...
>
> ie:
>
> message: fixing the mac power supplyeml..txt
>
>     Now look at the end of this message, its a .txt file,
>     however, I need to do this:....
>
>     going backwards, from ; .txt and remove the eml,
>     then slide over the .txt,
>
> So the end results are;
> message: fixing the mac power supply.txt

I tested this, but please try it first on a copy of the directory:

   % cd directory_with_the_files_to_rename
   % /bin/ls *eml..txt | perl -nle '/(.*)eml/ && rename $_, "$1.txt"'

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