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I have many drum samples. They all have the .aiff name on the end of 
each file. I need to delete the '.aiff' from multiple files at a time.
At the moment I am double clicking on each file name in a finder window 
and manually deleting the appendage .aiff.
It takes ages. Is there a better way.
I'm on a G5 OSX10.3.9.
Thanks,
Roman Pirie.

At 18:44 Uhr +1200 26.08.2006, Roman Pirie wrote:
>I have many drum samples. They all have the .aiff name on the end of
>each file. I need to delete the '.aiff' from multiple files at a time.
>At the moment I am double clicking on each file name in a finder window
>and manually deleting the appendage .aiff.

There's "A Better Finder Rename" - not much experience with it.

And there is File Buddy - the best utility for dealing with a large amount of files.

Check http://www.versiontracker.com for the latest version.

Cheers
Hans

Message posted by Laurent Cerveau <lcerveau@...>:

The a little bit non conventional way : Applescript

The computer geek, non user oriented but totally free and fast method in Terminal

ls -1 *.aiff | awk '{print "mv "$1" "$1}' | sed s/.aiff//2 | sh

To rename all .aiff to .aif

ls -1 *.aiff | awk '{print "mv "$1" "$1}' | sed s/.aiff/.aif/2 | sh

etc...