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renaming files
I have a list of files named ab_*.csv
I would like to remane them all by removing the ab_ and have *.csv I did the following but I am surely missing something. /* wrong script */ for i in `ls -1 ab_*`; do mv ab_$i $i; done Thanks in advance. 
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Quote:
Code:
bash-3.00# ls
ab_1.csv ab_2.csv ab_3.csv ab_4.csv
bash-3.00# for i in ab_*.csv; do
> echo mv $i ${i#*_}
> done
mv ab_1.csv 1.csv
mv ab_2.csv 2.csv
mv ab_3.csv 3.csv
mv ab_4.csv 4.csv
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