Re: renaming multiple files

[Helge Pettersen <tubamann@gmail.com>]

This is also possible to do with the rename command.
As stated in the help file: rename <from> <to> <files>.
So in your case this would be: rename "prefix-" "" prefix*
In my opinion, a lot easier than using a for loop. :-)

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:42:58 +0100, harry_b@mm.st <harry_b@mm.st> wrote:
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> Hi Fabia,
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> try something like this:
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> for f in prefix-*; do n=`echo $f | sed -e 's/prefix-//'`; echo $f $n; done
> 
> Make sure you use backticks for the n= part of the line!
> 
> When you replace 'echo' with 'mv' the files get renamed. :-)
> 
> Have fun!
> 
> Harry
> 
> - --On Monday, November 22, 2004 12:57:40 -0300 Fabio Zyserman
> 
> 
> <zyserman@fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar> wrote:
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have some files in a directory, called
> > prefix-file1
> > prefix-file2
> > etc
> >
> > I want to rename them to
> > file1
> > file2
> > etc
> >
> > How can I do it with a bash command?
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