[ILUG] Renaming a lot of files

[Dave Burke]

"Tanney, Austin" wrote:

>The naming system is as follows (this is an example filename that actually =
>exists)
>RDCR011_D09_2004-03-30.scf=20
>In this case.. I want to change the name to
>xRDCR011_D09.scf
>
>Basically.. I want to remove the characters "_2004-03-30"

rename 's/_2004-03-30//' *.scf

works on my debian boxes, though rename appears to do different things on a 
redhat box. YMMV I guess :)

Dave