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# 1  
Old 10-31-2011
Remove part of file names in a directory
Hi,

i have a directory full of pictures, .jpg files. Half of them begin with "beach_" (for ex beach_123_123456.jpg)
i'm looking for a command to remove the "beach_" from all files in the directory.

thanks
# 2  
Old 10-31-2011
There are several ways you can do it - here is one of them:
Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
ls -1 beach_*.jpg | while read mFName; do
  mNewFName=$(echo ${mFName} | sed 's/beach_//')
  echo "Now renaming ${mFName} to ${mNewFName}"
  mv ${mFName} ${mNewFName}
done

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# 3  
Old 10-31-2011
MySQL
thanks! it works perfectly.
# 4  
Old 11-01-2011
Hi,
Can you try with this code . It worked for me

Code:
ls -lrt | sed 's/beach_//g'

Regards,
Haris
# 5  
Old 11-01-2011
one more way ..
Code:
$ ls beach_*.jpg | nawk '{print "mv "$0; sub(/beach_/, "")};1' | paste - - | sh

 
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