[X-Unix] Re: Help batch renaming files with two "extentions"

[Timothy Luoma]

On Mar 23, 2005, at 8:33 PM, David Haines wrote:

> I've had success batch-renaming files named according to standard 
> practice:
>
> filename.gif
>
> for example.
>
> I'm faced with a large number of files named:
> filename.w01.tif
>
> filenmae.w07.tif
>
> etc.
>
> and need to be able to strip all of them of :   .tif
>
> This is certainly beyond my limited-but-slowly-growing shell-scripting
> abilities.


First of all, you ought to have Fink and/or DarwinPorts installed, and 
then you can install GNU Coreutils easily.  Using DP it's a simple

	port install coreutils

(I think Fink is just 'fink install coreutils')

Once you have coreutils, you'll find you have a whole lot of useful 
utilities such as 'basename' which would make this dirt simple


#!/bin/sh

for FILENAME in *.tif
do

	short=`basename $FILENAME .tif`

	mv -iv "$FILENAME" "$short"

done

# eof