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[ILUG] Strip first three characters from filename

[ILUG] Strip first three characters from filename

john Moylan john at nuatech.net
Mon Aug 11 14:42:15 IST 2008


>>Just a note on the above; the "ls" is completely superfluous.

Yes I know, old habits die hard. I'm surprised it took you guys so long to
react...;)



John


2008/8/11 Pádraig Brady <P at draigbrady.com>

> Colm Buckley wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:25 AM, john Moylan <john at nuatech.net> wrote:
> >
> >> for i in `ls *.mp3`; do cut  -d "_" -f2-; done
> >
> >
> > Just a note on the above; the "ls" is completely superfluous.
>
> .. and also problematic if the filenames contain spaces.
>
> Pádraig.
>



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