Re: basic issue/question -- renaming in mass a bunch of files

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On Sat, 2018-02-24 at 16:38 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2018-02-24 at 09:03 -0500, 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
> 
> Read the man page again. The pattern is just a text string, not a regex
> or sed-type command.

In fact the man page is very misleading as it uses the term
'expression' without any explanation. All the same, it is in fact only
a text string.

poc
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