Il 02 marzo 2012 00:13, pete <p.nikolic1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto: > I have some 350 picture files with names along the lines of > "IMG_7127 EOS-1D Mark III copy.jpg" i would like to rename them all > to more like "IMG_7127.jpg" i have tried a few times tonight and cant > get my head around it anyone got a script that can do it There have been lots of good suggestion. I put on the plate "detox": https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7130 Its purpose is eliminating from filenames charachters that make them difficult to work with, so it's also good for files *beginning* with a space, esoteric utf8 characters, escape codes, parentheses and whatever. It's kind of overkill for this, but it deserves to be mentioned :-) C