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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 15:02:23 +0200
From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>
To: "Dimitri T." <midios4@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: how do I get rid of that prefix?!
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Hi,

> I have some hundreds of files with a filename starting with a specific 
> prefix (lets say 'abc') and I want to rename them and get rid of this 
> prefix. How do I do that?

In sh:

for i in abc-*; do mv "$i" "`echo $i | sed s/abc-//`"; done

In tcsh:

foreach i (abc-*)
	mv "$i" "`echo $i | sed s/abc-//`"
end

Question from me: how can I put this foreach loop on one line in an
interactive tcsh?

--Stijn


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