Hi,

I have several hundred files I need to rename, and I'm would rather not hit F2 for each file individually to rename them.

Example of file:
large1961.jpg
What I need the file to be renamed as:
1961.jpg

I don't know what type of command I can execute within a shell script that would remove a specific unwanted part of the file name ("large") and leave the rest intact.

I am an obvious novice in shell scripting and would appreciate any help.
Thanks in advance.

many ways...one is:

Thanks.

So in order to actually rename the file, how could I take the output of that command and make it the final file name?

... if you have rename I would go that route ...

Thanks a lot. That did what I needed it to, and saved a lot of time on my part.

Could you explain the options you used in the command? I read the man page, but I'm not exactly sure what each parameter actually means.

if all of the files start with large or even a similar structure try this;

^large1967.*^1967.*

Folks, It all worked fine until i hit a filename with spaces in between.. how do i overcome this?
ex..
i tried on files "a.txt", "b.txt", "c d.txt", i got..
mv: cannot stat `c': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `d.txt': No such file or directory

Thanks,
OT