[ale] Renaming many files (prefix-trim)

[Yu, Jerry]

if it is fixed number for everybody, then something like this will do.
Assume you want it cut the first 2 characters, thus cut -c3- to keep the
3rd character and anythinga after.

for name in *.*
do
	test "$name" = "*.*"  && continue
	
	newName=`echo $name | cut -c3-`
	if [ -n "$newName" ]
	then
		mv $name $newName || echo "[$name] failed to rename to $newName"
	else
		echo "[$name] newName too short!!!!"
	fi
done

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Kenneth W Cochran wrote:

#Hi guys,
#
#I have another shell-question...
#
#I would like to rename some files, effectively "trimming" the
#1st x number of characters from the filenames.
#
#I'd kinda like to do this with Bourne Shell, but Perl may be better.
#I'm checking books (still learning this) but I'm open to suggestions.  :)
#
#-kc
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Jerry Yu				mailto: z.yu at ptek.com
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