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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting remove certain part of file name Post 302097619 by braindrain on Monday 27th of November 2006 03:13:10 PM
Old 11-27-2006
remove certain part of file name
Hi,
Is it possible to remove the first part of the file name using find.

i.e i have something like 2006abc.txt , 1007bed.txt etc,
I wanna rename them to abc.txt , bed.txt

I tried some stupid way..

find . -name '*.txt' -exec mv {} `cut -f2-5 -d"_" {}` \;

somehow iam not getting it.

appreciate any help.
 

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XCLIP-COPYFILE(1)					      General Commands Manual						 XCLIP-COPYFILE(1)

NAME

       xclip-copyfile, xclip-cutfile, xclip-pastefile - copy and move files via the X clipboard

SYNOPSIS

       xclip-copyfile [-p] FILES...

       xclip-cutfile [-p] FILES...

       xclip-pastefile

DESCRIPTION

       xclip-copyfile copies files into the X clipboard, recursing into directories.

       xclip-cutfile copies the files, but also deletes them afterwards.

       -p     preserve path formation

       xclip-pastefile pastes the files out of the clipboard

EXAMPLES

       Copying a file to a remote host

       [maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~]$ echo "A file created on ${HOSTNAME}" > file1
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       [sofie.homeip.net ~/doc]$ xclip-pastefile
       file1
       [sofie.homeip.net ~/doc]$ cat file1
       A file created on maggie.lkpg.cendio.se

       Copying an entire tree structure

       [sofie.homeip.net ~]$ xclip-copyfile doc
       [maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~/tmp]$ xclip-pastefile
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       Copying files with preserved path information

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       tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
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       [sofie.homeip.net ~/tmp]$ ls etc/sysconfig/grub
       etc/sysconfig/grub

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       ls: cannot access letter-brother-may.txt: No such file or directory
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