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Linux : Copy Multiple files and remove their extensions

I have got a directory containing files of type *.cpp.So i would like to copy each file in the directory and to paste it in the same directory by using

 cp -a *.cpp

with an option to remove the .cpp while pasting. Is it possible?

Solution

  • Here is a simple bash script. This script assumes that the file name only contains one "." character and splits based on that. 

    #!/bin/sh

for f in *.cpp; do

#This line splits the file name on the delimiter "."
baseName=`echo $f | cut -d "." -f 1`
newExtension=".new"

cp $f $baseName$newExtension

done