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Old 08-10-2011
Deleting part of file names
My server got messed up and the names of my files were not completely processed. As results I ended up getting a bunch of files with the following names:
Quote:
A01_LBHCV-1-C1-RVS.ab1
A02_LBHCV-1-C9-RVS.ab1
A03_LBHCV-1-C17-RVS.ab1
I need to remove the underscore and everything before it. Thus, the files will be renamed to something like this:
Quote:
LBHCV-1-C1-RVS.ab1
LBHCV-1-C9-RVS.ab1
LBHCV-1-C17-RVS.ab1
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
# 2  
Old 08-10-2011
Try:
Code:
for i in *; do mv $i ${i#*_}; done

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# 3  
Old 08-10-2011
bartus
Thank you very, very much!
# 4  
Old 08-10-2011
Minor addition. In general it is better to use weak quoting around variable references so that it works for files with spaces or special characters too:
Code:
for i in *; do mv "$i" "${i#*_}"; done

 
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