Fabio Zyserman wrote:
> I have some files in a directory, called
> prefix-file1
> prefix-file2
> etc
>
> I want to rename them to
> file1
> file2
> etc
>
> How can I do it with a bash command?
for file in prefix-* ; do
mv "$file" "${file##prefix-}"
done
Various utilities exist to perform this task, e.g. rename, mmv, but
none are standard (rename is from util-linux, so it's likely to exist
on most Linux systems, but not other Unices).
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Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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