Kevin Shackleton wrote:

suggestions to rename multiple files in a single directory to individual
shorter names?
eg
  proj1file1
  proj1file2
  . . .
to
  file1
  file2
  . . .

for f in proj1file*; do echo mv $f ${f#proj1}; done

TIMTOWTDI :)

cheers
rickw


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