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On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 at 12:51, Piers via luv-main <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I have a bunch of files that I want to rename:
>
>
> 123.someword.doc > 123.doc
>
> 456.someword.pdf > 456.pdf
>
> The "someword" is consistent in all the files and they need to be
> renamed recursively.
>
> Something like this but with a different regex:
>
> # This is for a completely different file name structure
>
> find . -name '123*.txt' -type f -exec bash -c 'mv "$1" "${1/\/123_//}"'
> -- {} \;
>
> ...sorry regex is a shortfall of mine.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Cheers
>
> Piers
>
>
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