On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 09:28:23AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 07:22:33AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > How can I rename all of the files ina directory with the new name > > being the old name stripped of its leftmost three characters. If > > all of the files are off the format: > > > > xxxyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.zzz > > > > I want the new names to be of the format: > > > > yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.zzz > > > > I have hundreds of files like this in each of several directories > > and I really don't want to do it all by hand. I did some of that, > > already, and I know there must be a better way. > > for i in *zzz;do > mv "$i" $(echo "$i"|sed 's/^...//'); > done > > But I'd recommend one of these: mrename, krename, gprename, > renameutils and more (all apt-gettable, of course).
Oh, and I think prename (or just rename?) comes with Perl. It should be something as simple as: rename 's/^...//' *.zzz HTH. Kumar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
