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Operating Systems AIX removing 8th and 9th character of a FILENAME Post 302425269 by pseudocoder on Thursday 27th of May 2010 01:45:31 PM
Old 05-27-2010
All right, try this, directly in the target directory:
Code:
$ for i in *.pdf
do
j=$(echo "$i" | cut -c1-7 -c10-)
mv "$i" "$j"
done

Please make a backup of your original files before you run this, just for the case that something goes wrong Smilie
 

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XFIG-PDF-VIEWER(1)						Debian Users Manual						XFIG-PDF-VIEWER(1)

NAME
xfig-pdf-viewer - view a PDF document using a PDF browser under X11 SYNOPSIS
xfig-pdf-viewer file.pdf DESCRIPTION
xfig-pdf-viewer is a little shell script, which tries to find out which PDF viewers you have installed on your system and then starts them. xfig-pdf-viewer tries the following PDF viewers with descending priority: - xpdf(1) - kpdf(1) - evince(1) - acroread(1) - gpdf(1) - gv(1) - gnome-gv(1) - kghostview(1) - ghostview(1) If the environment variable PDFVIEWER is set, this is used with highest priority. ENVIRONMENT
PDFVIEWER you can define your favorite browser with this variable, it overrides the priority of the above mentioned viewers. AUTHOR
Roland Rosenfeld <roland@spinnaker.de> SEE ALSO
xpdf(1), kpdf(1), evince(1), acroread(1), gpdf(1), gv(1), gnome-gv(1), kghostview(1), ghostview(1) Debian Project JULY 2006 XFIG-PDF-VIEWER(1)
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