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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to find files and replace them in a directory in Shell scripting Post 302577596 by CarloM on Tuesday 29th of November 2011 11:53:16 AM
Old 11-29-2011
You could do something like:
Code:
for fname in *.xml *.org *.txt
do
   nname=$(echo "${fname}" | sed 's/^[^#]*#//')
#   mv "${fname}" "${nname}"
   echo "${fname}" "${nname}"
done

 

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