[ale] [OT] Cygwin mmv like tool

Greg Freemyer greg.freemyer at gmail.com
Thu Jul 27 15:57:05 EDT 2006


On 7/27/06, Joe Steele <joe at madewell.com> wrote:
> Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > Anyone know a tool for rename a bunch of files at one whack in the
> > cygwin environment?
> >
> > ie.  I want to strip the abc prefix off of a bunch of abc* files.
>
> for i in abc*; do mv -i "$i" "${i#abc}"; done
>

Very nice.

Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century



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