Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 09:22:12 -0800 From: joseph kacmarcik <freebsd-questions@chubbo.net> To: Phusion <phusion2k@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help Renaming Multple Files Message-ID: <1110216132.422c8dc4df808@mail.chubbo.net> In-Reply-To: <c3ed3fdc050307083572c03627@mail.gmail.com> References: <c3ed3fdc050307083572c03627@mail.gmail.com>
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> I need help figuring out how to rename multple files. The files are > named like reports_abcdef_YYYYMMDD.dat, reports_hijklm_YYYYMMDD.dat, > and reports_nopqrs_YYYYMMDD.dat. Here is an example. > > Original Filename: reports_abcdef_YYYYMMDD.dat > New Filename: abcdef_YYYYMMDD.dat > > Let me know how I can do this. Thanks. there are plenty of methods for this. one is: for file in `ls -1 /path/to/files`; do mv $file `echo $file | sed -e 's/^reports_//g'` done joe
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