Re: scripting question

[Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in>]

On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 07:22:33AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> How can I rename all of the files ina directory with the new name
> being the old name stripped of its leftmost three characters.  If
> all of the files are off the format:
> 
> 	xxxyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.zzz
> 
> I want the new names to be of the format:
> 
> 	yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.zzz
> 
> I have hundreds of files like this in each of several directories
> and I really don't want to do it all by hand.  I did some of that,
> already, and I know there must be a better way.

for i in *zzz;do
mv "$i" $(echo "$i"|sed 's/^...//');
done

But I'd recommend one of these: mrename, krename, gprename,
renameutils and more (all apt-gettable, of course).

HTH.

Kumar