john.parnefjord.se Reflections & findings

This is just a reminder to myself how to rename files by removing a suffix. The typical scenario is that I have just renamed a bunch of files, by adding the suffix .bak or something like that. Now I want to rename the files to their original name by removing .bak.

For example to rename all files matching *.conf.bak so that just have the .conf-suffix: 

for i in $(ls *.conf.bak); do mv -f $i ${i%.conf.bak}.conf; done;