Annoying behavious of Nautilus when drag+drop as link

[Rutger van Haasteren]

>
> many files could be placed in a few different folders and I don't want any
> copies of anything except for backup). Of course there is a lot of ways I
> could solve this afterwards, like writing a script that searches for all
> those files and removes the first part of their names, but it would really
> be the most convenient thing to not having that stuff added to the name in
> the first place.
>
Hi Johnny,

I am not a Nautilus expert as I do not use it, so no help there, but
mass-renaming is simple. There are many gui apps out there that are able to
do it, but I usually use this in a shell. For you something like this should
do the trick:

$ rename 's/Link\ to\ //' *.xxx

Better than writing a script, but hopefully there is a Nautilus option...
Look up man rename.

Rutger
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