for I in *.jpg; do mv $I `echo $I |sed s#pict00##`; done
you can type that directly on the command line, which as I gather from
your question will strip out the pict00 as you want. this works for up
to 99 files of course.
--sean
Josef Lowder wrote:
> Can anyone provide a simple shell script command to
> change the file names of all the files in a given directory?
> from pict0001.jpg to just 01.jpg
> from pict0002.jpg to just 02.jpg etc. etc.
> with the numbers running to a few hundred pix, all with
> the same "pict00..." first part of the filename.
>
> I looked on the 'net to find a shell script to "mass" rename the files
> in any given directory and found the example below to rename the
> suffix from php3 to just php, but I couldn't figure out how to modify
> that to change the filename itself.
>
> ls -d *.php3 | sed 's/\(.*\).php3$/mv "&" "\1.php"/' | sh
>
> I also found a *nix utility on my system named 'rename' but I
> couldn't get it to work. Below is an excerpt from the 'man' page
> for 'rename' ... but what in the world is 'foo'??
>
> MAN PAGE excerpt:
> rename will rename the specified files by replacing
> the first occurrence of from in their name by to.
> For example, given the files foo1, ..., foo9, foo10, ..., foo278, the
> commands
>
> rename foo foo0 foo?
> rename foo foo0 foo??
>
> will turn them into foo001, ..., foo009, foo010, ..., foo278.
> And
> rename .htm .html *.htm will fix the extension of your html files.
>
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