On 02/24/2018 08:38 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sat, 2018-02-24 at 09:03 -0500, 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
Read the man page again. The pattern is just a text string, not a regex
or sed-type command.
poc
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There appears to be 2 different "rename" programs out in the world. The
Fedora rename uses a text string for the pattern, but on my Mint box the
pattern is a sed-like substitution. Confusing ?