[plug] Renaming files

[Leon Brooks]

On Friday 05 April 2002 08:07 pm, Paul Dean wrote:
> I would like to rename a large number of files by stipping of the first
> 35 chars.

> So if someone could point me in the right direction would be much
> appreciated.

for x in *; do mv -v "$x" "$(echo $x | cut -b 35-)"; done

The -v is optional, makes mv tell you what it's doing, the 35- says print 
char 35 and on, if it doesn't work out at the right spot, change this.

Cheers; Leon