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:

• cassandra.yml.example
• database.yml.example
• facebook.yml.example
• cache.yml.example
• system.yml.example

need to copy them and have names like this:

• cassandra.yml
• database.yml
• facebook.yml
• cache.yml
• system.yml

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

If you want to remove a specific, unchanging, suffix, do this:

for n in $(ls *.example | sed 's/.example//'); do\
   mv "$n".example "$n";\
done

This assumes that your names do not contain spaces or other weird characters (as they shouldn't), if they do, use this instead:

find . -name "*.example" | sed 's/.example//' | while IFS= read -r n; do \
   mv "$n".example "$n"; \
done

If the suffix can change, something like this should work:

find . -type f | while IFS= read -r n; do\
   perl -e '$ARGV[0]=/(.+)\..+?$/; `mv $ARGV[0] $1`' "$n";
done