Rename files while preserving directories

[noadankes]

Hi, if i have these files in this structure:

/folder1/folder2/afile.20070501
/folder1/folder3/afile.20070501
/folder1/folder4/afile.20070501
/folder2/folder5/afile.20070501
/folder2/folder6/afile.20070501

I don't know *all* the location of all the files - there may be more or less.

I would like to remove the '.20070501' extension from all the files while keeping the files in the same directory.

Thanks

[ghostdog74]

here's one way:

find /path -type f -name "*.20070501" > file
while read -r line; 
do 
   mv "$line"  "${line%%.*}"
done < file

[cfajohnson]

here's one way:

find /path -type f -name "*.20070501" > file
while read -r line; 
do 
   mv "$line"  "${line%%.*}"
done < file

The temporary file is not necessary, IFS should be empty for the read, and to remove only the final extension, use '%', not '%%':

find /path -type f -name "*.20070501" |
while IFS= read -r line
do 
   mv "$line"  "${line%.*}"
done