Copy files with deleting suffix in name

Question

How can be done coping files that have some suffix at the end, into same dir with the smallest command possible:

Example have directory containing files:

need to copy them and have names like this:

Ive figured about such thing: for x in ./config/*.example; do cp $x ./config/basename $x .example`; done — Vitaliy Yanchuk, Dec 07 '12 at 12:12
you can even get rid of the basename call (at least with recent-enough bash): for x in ./config/*.example; do n=${x##*/}; cp $x dest/dir/${n%.example}; done — peterph, Dec 07 '12 at 12:59

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 07 '12 at 15:43

4

for x in /path/to/*.example
do
  cp "$x" "${x%%.example}"
done

Will make a copy without the .example into the same folder as the source file.

answered Dec 07 '12 at 15:43

llua

This doesn't work with files with spaces – laebshade Dec 09 '12 at 21:53
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If the variables are inclosed in double quotes the spaces should be perserved. – llua Dec 11 '12 at 03:25

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 09 '12 at 22:01

Requires find and a shell that supports string manipulation and process substitution (i.e. Bash and any compatible):

while read file
    do cp $file ${file%%.ext}
done < <(find -type f)

If you want to copy all files without extensions, you can use the glob (*) instead of ext.

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