On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 06:21:50PM -0000, Tanney, Austin wrote:
> RDCR011_D09_2004-03-30.scf
>> In this case.. I want to change the name to
> xRDCR011_D09.scf
find -type f | xargs rename 's/^\.\/(.*)_\d\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\d\.(...)$/.\/x$1.$2/'
> Basically.. I want to remove the characters "_2004-03-30"
> Now.. these are not set characters and change for each file.
> I'm happy enough to run this as 4 processes.. i.e., one for each file type.
I'm assuming yyyy-mm-dd and 3 letter extensions. I haven't tested that
with a large number of files but it worked with 2. Alter the regex to
suit your tastes.
Brian
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