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Originally Posted by ken_yap

If the shell is bash:

${i/%mts/avi}

will give you the name in $i with the trailing mts changed to avi. The % specifies trailing, without it the first match is used, so you will get a surprise with a name like high-mts.mts.

Thanks ! Works like magic !!

Originally Posted by ken_yap

Oh, and enclose $i and that expression in double quotes so that possible spaces in the filename won't wreck your script.

There are no spaces in the raw file names produced by my camcorder, but its still good to know.

Thanks !!