On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 07:22:33AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> 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
>
for file in `ls all the files` ; do mv $file ${file#xxx}; done
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