On 02/24/18 22:03, bruce wrote:
Hi.
Have a bunch of files with the basic naming of:
ztcloud_nfs_parseztaa_1__WGS_7500_001__parse.dat
ztcloud_nfs_parseztaa_1__WGS_7500_002__parse.dat
etc..
I'd like to simply remove the 1st part ztcloud_nfs_parsezt from the
files, renaming the files to the rest of the filename..
Thought it should be simple using rename
rename 's/ztcloud_nfs_parseztaa/aa/' zt*.dat
However, this didn't work... so.. hmm..
How would you guys solve this?
SO has a bunch of different solns as well.
If I understand correctly you want ztcloud_nfs_parseztaa_1__WGS_7500_001__parse.dat
renamed to aa_1__WGS_7500_001__parse.dat, etc?
And all the files follow the pattern with the same length?
If so, the simple script
#!/bin/bash
for file in *dat
do
name=`echo $file | cut -c20-48`
mv $file $name
done
does it.
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