changing suffix

James <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.ottawa.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
  I am trying tro change the suffix of files that end in .a.b to .b

I tried (to echo first):
for f in *\.a\.bl; do echo ${f#\.a\}.b; done

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