[ILUG] Strip first three characters from filename

[john Moylan]

for i in `ls *.mp3`; do cut  -d "_" -f2-; done

2008/8/10 <ollie at eillo.org>

>
> I have a ton of mp3 files that I'm currently sorting the id3 tags for.
> Each filename starts with the tracknumber followed by an underscore.
>
> e.g. 01_SONG_NAME_-_ARTIST_NAME_-_ALBUM_NAME.mp3
>
> Because i have a unique separator between the SONG, ALBUM and BAND name
> '_-_'
> i can use my audio tag software to populate the ID3 tag fields
> appropriately.
>
> However the track number is separated from the band name by an underscore
> and the
> software isn't flexible enough to tell the difference.
>
> So i need a shell script that will loop through a directory and
> strip the first three characters from each filename.
>
> Can this be easily done in shell?
>
> If not i can do it in python but id rather not.
>
> Cheers,
>       Oliver.
>
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