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Old 01-05-2009
freizl freizl is offline
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Assuming the "ABC20090102" string is fixed length.
And I'm using sh shell.


Code:
ls -1 *.txt | awk '{print "mv", $1, substr($1,12) }' | sh

Last edited by freizl; 01-05-2009 at 04:55 AM..