[plug] Remove first spcae in a filename

[Mike Holland]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Christian Müller wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have just created a bunch of files and unfortunatelly seem to have a
> > space as the first charater. How do I remove this space considering that

The powerful pattern-matching abilities of Perl would be useful here.
e.g.
     for ( * ) { if ( /\ (.+)/ ) { rename $_, $1 } }

> > anyone know on how I can do this on the bash shell?

Of course that doesnt really answer your question (as Tony did), but I
love a bit of Perl-mongering.

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Mike Holland  <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>
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