Question

I’ve run into this a few times and I’m curious about automating it. If I want to move a bunch of files matching a pattern to a slightly different pattern, how would I do it?

More specifically, If I want to git mv the following files

fileA.css.scss
fileB.css.scss
...

to

fileA.scss
fileA.scss
...

How would you do it?

Answer 1

I would write something like:

for file in *.css.scss ; do
    mv "$file" "${file%.css.scss}.scss"
done

(Note: I’m not sure of the right arguments for git mv, so I just demonstrated using mv, I hope that’s O.K.)

For information on the ${parameter%word} notation, see §3.5.3 Shell Parameter Expansion in the Bash Reference Manual.