On Sat, 24 Feb 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: > 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. fedora has a "rename" command that would seem to be designed for just this sort of thing. rday _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
