On 12/3/05, Jim Cunning <jcunning@cunning.ods.org> wrote:
On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 21:33, Jim Cunning wrote:
On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 21:15, David Crouch wrote:
Thanks again for the previous help. That went so quick, maybe another one?
I'm looking for a simple way to strip the first 8 characters of every file in a directory. This one has me confused, I admit. I know it can be done... just not sure how.
"cut" will do what you want. See 'man cut'
Actually I might have answered a bit too quickly, because you didn't give enough information. You want to strip the first 8 characters of each file's contents, or the 1st 8 of the files' names? In either case, the solution is more involved than my original answer implied--and also different depending on your objective. -- Jim Cunning <jcunning@cunning.ods.org>
Let me clarify. I want to strip the first 8 characters off each file in a given file name. Sorry for the confusion. Cut works, partly, I've figured out how to strip the charazcters, but not how to rename with the results. -- David Crouch