Re: scripting question

[Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>]

On 2009-07-01 18:20 (+0300), Teemu Likonen wrote:

>     find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sh -c 'for file in "$@"; 
>       do dir=$(dirname -- "$file") && base=$(basename -- "$file") &&
>       (cd "$dir" && echo mv -- "$base" "${base#???}"); done' ignore

Let's simplify it a bit:

    find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sh -c 'for file in "$@"; 
      do dir=$(dirname -- "$file") && base=$(basename -- "$file") &&
      echo mv -- "$file" "$dir/${base#???}"; done' ignore

This does it without "cd".