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>
> The second question would be best solved in perl, but I can take a shell
> solution. I have a somewhat variable list of files, *XYZ.txt. I do not
want
> any extension on these files (adding an extension seems easy enough). Can
> they be renamed copied to a basename with a single command? I'm looking
for
> something short of some clever scripting which would build a list of
names,
> parse each to derive the basename without the extension, and build a cp or
> mv command, although if that's what it takes, then I'm stuck with that.

You can say this in the shell:

for i in *XYZ.txt; do mv $i ${i%.*}; done

Is that short enough for ya?

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