Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:40:18 +0100 From: Frank de Bot <freebsd@searchy.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help Renaming Multple Files Message-ID: <422C83F2.8040707@searchy.nl> In-Reply-To: <c3ed3fdc050307083572c03627@mail.gmail.com> References: <c3ed3fdc050307083572c03627@mail.gmail.com>
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for files in `ls`;do newfile=`echo $files | sed "s|^reports_||g"`;mv $files $newfile;done it's unproved code at the moment, but it gives an idea how to do it. Phusion wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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