It won't look exactly right, fwiw. You ought to be able to figure out what's wrong and correct it. Retry until it does look right *before* you remove the "echo".
On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 1:21 PM Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote: > for i in BMRR_* ; do echo mv $i ${i##BMRR} ; done > > if that looks right, then remove the "echo" and re-run. > > > On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 1:07 PM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I have a directory with 30 files. Each filename begins with BMRR_ and I >> want >> to strip that off, leaving the rest of the name unchanged. There are 5 >> different extensions on the files. >> >> I've used rename to change file extensions but not characters at the front >> or middle of filenames. My web searches (after a couple of futile efforts >> with sed and rename) found a number of suggestions for removing a string >> within each filename or characters at the end of each file name. I tried >> modifying each suggestion to remove the 5 initial characters but none >> worked. >> >> There are six sets of five files; one set is: >> BMRR_Pits.cpg BMRR_Pits.dbf BMRR_Pits.prj BMRR_Pits.shp BMRR_Pits.shx >> >> Suggestions needed. >> >> TIA, >> >> Rich >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
