On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 14:11 +0000, arnaldo gomes wrote: > Hello > > Just installed fedora 14 but when I try renaming a file it includes > the extension, unlike Fedora 11. > Is this normal ? There's really no such thing as "extension" with Linux. You can easily have a file called my.very.long.file.name - the "." is just part of the file name. The last part of a filename after the last . doesn't have special meaning either. It's purely aesthetics for the user to know what type of content a file has. When you rename using mv it uses the default globbing rules. That means that *.abc matches any file that ends on .abc - even if it's named test.1.abc or file.abc. You have the option of doing very advanced matches if you want to make a difference on that "level" the . is on. Also, besides the traditional "mv" command for renaming, you have more advanced methods for mass renaming, like "rename". They too depend on simple pattern matching - so if you choose to match on the last part of a file name, they do that nicely too. None of this has changed with Fedora for a long time. With Nautilus when you select a file and choose rename, it SHOULD only highlight the first part of the filename for you (until the first .). This behavior irritates me given the nature of a Linux file system not to care about extensions, but that's the way it's been for a while. It's easy however to accidentally expand the selection to be the hole file name, and in that case you'll change the full name. I see no change in behavior there between F12 -> F14. It still only highlights until the last dot (.). -- Best Regards Peter Larsen Wise words of the day: Win95 is not a virus; a virus does something. -- unknown source
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