assuming you're just trimming off ccna, pc1, and ext

for i in $( ls )
do
mv $i $( echo $i | awk -F. '{ print $3 }' )
done

That would move them to pod# names.

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Dennis Kibbe <dennisk@sdf.lonestar.org>wrote:

> Can someone suggest a way to rename a directory of files like this:
>
> ccna.pod1.pc1.ext is renamed to ccna.pod2.pc1.ext
> ccna.pod2.pc1.ext is renamed to ccna.pod3.pc1.ext
>
> and so on.
>
> (Aside: Hans, if I were able to take your scripting class I won't be asking
> this now. :-)
>
> Dennisk
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