renaming *.wav.mp3 to *.mp3 only

[Erich Schroeder]

On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Matthew Miller wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:12:39PM -0500, Erich Schroeder wrote:
>> On fedora you can use rename.
>> [erich at groucho temp]$ touch test.wav.mp3
>> [erich at groucho temp]$ rename .wav.mp3 .mp3 *.wav.mp3
>> [erich at groucho temp]$ ls *.mp3
>> test.mp3
>
> Man, I find that more confusing and harder to remember than the bash loop
> approach. :)

Sorry, of course the only line that was needed was:

rename .wav.mp3 .mp3 *.wav.mp3

And

   rename .htm .html *.htm

will fix the extension of your html files, if you should need it. I 
particularly use it to lowercase the .pdf extension when a bunch of them 
are provided me by windows folks.

eks



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