I'm not sure which package provides the command, but if you have rename.ul on your system, then rename.ul "[oldText]" "newText" * will replace the first instance of [oldText] with [newText] in every filename in the working directory. Naturally, you can replace * with, for example, *.txt if you only want to rename text files. If you just want to delete a common string, just make [newText] empty by putting two double quotes with nothign between them. Note: single quotes work as well for delimiting [oldText] and [newText], and if there's a dash(-) in either [oldText] or [newText], you'll need to include double dash(--) before them to avoid the shell trying to read the dashes as flag markers. Do note that rename.ul also only changes the first instance, so if you're using it to, for example replace underscores in web safe filenames with spaces, you'll need to run the command until all instances have been changed. There are other rename tools out there, but rename.ul is particularly good at removing a common prefix from a bunch of related files, which sounds like your situation. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list