Marc Shapiro <mshapiro...@yahoo.com> writes: > I am sure that this is an easy question for those people who do any > reasonable amount of scripting. I'm just not one of them. > > 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.
In ZSH with zmv, you can do it with the following: $ zmv 'xxx(*).zzz' '$1.zzz' - Michael -- mouse, n: A device for pointing at the xterm in which you want to type. Confused by the strange files? I cryptographically sign my messages. For more information see <http://www.elehack.net/resources/gpg>. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
