From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 25 5:36:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f232.law9.hotmail.com [64.4.9.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C81537B424 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 05:36:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 05:36:44 -0700 Received: from 195.66.101.66 by lw9fd.law9.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 12:36:43 GMT X-Originating-IP: [195.66.101.66] From: "Dimitri T." To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: how do I get rid of that prefix?! Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 12:36:43 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Sep 2000 12:36:44.0047 (UTC) FILETIME=[430E01F0:01C026ED] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hello everybody, 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? I've been experementing and actually managed to add prefices, delete sufices but still cannot figure how to DELETE PREFECES! (it's driving me crazy, u know.. Aaaargh!!) ~%^@ Any help is welcome .. bye, dimitri _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message