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Revision: 33634
at October 11, 2010 11:11 by powerthru


Initial Code
for i in *.html; do mv "$i" ${i##FS-}; done;

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Initial Description
Execute on the command line. Assumes all files are in the current directory; does not recurse into subdirectories. Replace "*.html" with correct search term for your situation; replace "FS-" with the leading text you wish to remove. This example removes the text FS-  from all files which end in .html

Initial Title
strip leading text from all filenames in a directory

Initial Tags
directory

Initial Language
Bash