Question

Thanks to messing up my first attempts to do this, I now have a directory full of files that are now named like this:

valery-special-music-poetry.txt.mtxt.md.md.txt.mtxt.md.md.md

which I need to be named:

valery-special-music-poetry.md

how can I do this from the command line?

I am running: GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin12)

Answer 1

This may help you

#!/bin/bash
for filename in *
do
    x=`echo $filename | sed 's/\..*\./\./g'`
    mv $filename $x
done

Save this to a file called rename.sh

chmod +x rename.sh
./rename.sh