Rename multiple files at once

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 02:48:44PM -0500, Stephen Ryan wrote:
> One other thing: if your files aren't completely randomly-named and there's a
> piece of the filename that you need to keep, (i.e., you want to rename
> DSCF00012.jpg to 12.jpg) check out mmv (it's in universe).

For that matter, if you have that kind of pattern, you can
just use the 'rename' command:

rename 's/^DSCF//g ; s/^0+//g' *.jpg

The first command inside the quotes strips off the leading
DSCF; the second command strips off leading zeroes, so that
'00012' becomes '12'.

I've not tested the above, but it probably does what you
want.

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