On 02/24/18 22:03, bruce wrote: > Hi. > > Have a bunch of files with the basic naming of: > ztcloud_nfs_parseztaa_1__WGS_7500_001__parse.dat > ztcloud_nfs_parseztaa_1__WGS_7500_002__parse.dat > etc.. > > I'd like to simply remove the 1st part ztcloud_nfs_parsezt from the > files, renaming the files to the rest of the filename.. > > Thought it should be simple using rename > > rename 's/ztcloud_nfs_parseztaa/aa/' zt*.dat > > However, this didn't work... so.. hmm.. > > How would you guys solve this? > > SO has a bunch of different solns as well. If I understand correctly you want ztcloud_nfs_parseztaa_1__WGS_7500_001__parse.dat renamed to aa_1__WGS_7500_001__parse.dat, etc? And all the files follow the pattern with the same length? If so, the simple script #!/bin/bash for file in *dat do name=`echo $file | cut -c20-48` mv $file $name done does it. -- A motto of mine is: When in doubt, try it out
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