The rename command…

[Ulf Rompe]

Sorry all for the previous, empty post.

On Mo, 2008-08-25 at 16:00 +0200, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> Since there is a serious bug in Nautilus, that adds the very
> unnecessary text "Link to " to a link created with Ctrl+Shift
> +Drag&Drop,

I don't think it's a serious bug. I would call it bad design. :-)

> rename -v 's/Link to //' *
> 
> However, there doesn't seem to be an option for recursivity built in
> to that command. I am not good with scripts, but I am sure there is a
> way around that.

find . -type l -print0 | xargs -0 rename -v 's/Link to //'

[x] ulf 

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