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[ILUG] Renaming a lot of files

[ILUG] Renaming a lot of files

Fabien SEISEN seisen at linuxfr.org
Thu Nov 25 15:53:17 GMT 2004


"Tanney, Austin" <Austin.Tanney at arradx.com> writes:
> ...
> The naming system is as follows (this is an example filename that
> actually exists)
> RDCR011_D09_2004-03-30.scf 
>  
> In this case.. I want to change the name to 
> xRDCR011_D09.scf
>  
> 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.

mmv '*_*-*-*.scf' 'x#1.scf'

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