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Old 01-02-2009
Renaming Files (Multiple files)

Hi,

I have a directory with files names like ABC20090101AXY.txt, ABC20090102BZ.txt,ABC20090101COF.txt etc. The digits in the filenames represent the date. I want to rename the files to AXY.txt, BZ.txt and COF.txt

I tried with this code.

myfile= date '+ABC%Y%m%d'
for i in *.txt
do
mv $i `echo $i | sed 's/$myfile//'`
done

But its giving message

mv: ABC20090101AXY.txt and ABC20090101AXY.txt are identical

Can u help me finding the problem.

Regards,
Shekhar
 

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