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Is there a way to turn it off so that when you're renaming a file, it doesn't highlight the extension?

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Use something else than Nautilus' List View mode. It works fine in the Compact View and Icon View modes. Apparently it's a regression: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627110

Update:
This is now fixed in the development version of Ubuntu 11.10 (Nautilus 3.0.1.1).

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    How annoying. Do you suppose there's a chance of Ubuntu pulling the available patch into maverick-updates? – Oli Nov 09 '10 at 14:31
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When I right click a file and select Rename, or press F2, the extension isn't highlighted.

To answer your question: you don't have to do anything.

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You should try pressing F2 twice and extension will highlight.

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  • This didn't work but changing to icon view worked!!! Thanks for the tip –  Oct 13 '10 at 10:56
  • Yep, it only works on icon view. I really do not understand why in list mode it highlights the name plus the extension. It makes no sense. – Alfredo Hernández Jan 23 '11 at 21:53
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to get only name without extension:

${var%.ext}

where ".ext" is extension

following a test script. to effect changes alter the commented line

for name in `find ./path -iname "*pattern*.ext" `; do
    new_name=${name%.ext}newextension
    if [ "$new_name" != "$name" ]; then
        echo “$name => $new_name”
        # mv “$name” “$new_name”
    fi
done
SergioAraujo
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    find does not belong in a for-loop. Use a "while read"-loop. See http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls#for_i_in_.24.28ls_.2A.mp3.29 – geirha Jan 23 '11 at 21:56