Multiple file rename in subfolders?

Hi all,
I want to rename all my ".folder.jpg" in my music folder (because banshee does not recognize them)
to "folder.jpg".
How can I do this from the command line? I know find and mv, but how to combine them?
Thanks alot.

shining wrote:
morellik wrote:
Surely someone has a better solution.
You write the following code in a file and execute it changing its mode in 755.
f=`find . -type f -name ".*" -print | cut -d. -f3`
for i in `echo $f`
do
mv .$i.jpg $i.jpg
done
I think this one would only work for files on the first level.
In this case, don't use find, but rather something like :
for i in .*.jpg; do mv $i ${i#.*}; done
Yes, of course. Thanks for the improvements.

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