[ale] Renaming many files (prefix-trim)

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Kenneth W Cochran wrote:
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> I have another shell-question...
> 
> I would like to rename some files, effectively "trimming" the
> 1st x number of characters from the filenames.
> 
> I'd kinda like to do this with Bourne Shell, but Perl may be better.
> I'm checking books (still learning this) but I'm open to suggestions.  :)

This works in ksh:

for fn in $(< listoffiles); do

	mv $fn ${fn#???*}
done

Will remove the first ??? characters of each file.  Vary ??? to suite
your needs.

> 
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