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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with modifying a filename Post 302923389 by Scrutinizer on Sunday 2nd of November 2014 12:31:07 PM
Old 11-02-2014
Try:
Code:
for f in *_*_20*_*.*
do
  [ -f "$f" ] && mv -- "$f" "${f%_*_*}_${f#*_*_20}"
done

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 11-02-2014 at 01:36 PM..
 

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SYNOPSIS

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libstdc++							  Tue Nov 27 2012					   std::placeholders(3cxx)
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