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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Filenames change in a directory Post 302468709 by mtomar on Wednesday 3rd of November 2010 03:20:32 PM
Old 11-03-2010
Here you go.

$ ls
abc_ahb_four.v abc_ahb_three.v abc_ahb_two.v

for filename in `ls` ; do segment=`echo $filename | cut -d_ -f3` ; mv $filename abc_qsb_ahb_$segment ; done

$ ls
abc_qsb_ahb_four.v abc_qsb_ahb_three.v abc_qsb_ahb_two.v
 

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