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[ILUG] Strip first three characters from filename

[ILUG] Strip first three characters from filename

Steve McConville mcconville.steve at gmail.com
Sun Aug 10 12:21:33 IST 2008


For future reference there's a perl program called 'rename' which  -
depending on distro - you may already have installed. It just uses
regexps, so

rename 's/^\w{3}//' *.mp3

would do what you want. John's solution using cut is more portable, however.

-- 
steev
http://www.daikaiju.org.uk/~steve/



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