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I'd like to rename a group of files to their same filename but without extension. They are scattered in my home directory and I don't know where they are located precisely, but I do know the extension to be removed.

I need to have one and only one command to perform this task.

Here's the partial command:

$ find ~/ -type f -name "*.hhs" -exec mv <I DO NOT KNOW> ;

Where <I DO NOT KNOW> is to be replaced by your suggestion. For example, I tried to replace it with the following:

`basename .hhs`

It does not work for me.

Example

If files file1.jpg.hhs and file2.jpg.hhs are found, I'd like them to be renamed as follows: file1.jpg and file2.jpg

If you have or can install the PERL extension, rename (apt-get install rename on a Debian-based distribution)...

find ~ -type f -name "*.hhs" -exec rename -d ".hhs" +

The option, -d or --delete deletes the specified string.

You require a tool that can delete the .hhs filename suffix from the filename. find can not do this for you, so you will have to call another utility through -exec:

find "$HOME" -type f -name '*.hhs' -exec sh -c '
 for pathname do
 cp -i "$pathname" "$pathname%.hhs"
 done' sh +

I'm not using basename here as that would also remove the directory path from the found pathnames (which could be inserted again with dirname, but it would yield messy code).

Instead, I call an in-line shell script with as many found pathnames as possible, and let the script loop over these, copying the individual files. The new name is constructed using a standard parameter substitution that deletes the string .hhs from the end of the value of $pathname.

Related:

• Understanding the -exec option of `find`