[ILUG] Strip first three characters from filename

[ollie at eillo.org]

I have rename and come across some solutions using it (and others) on google but while I'm extremely comfortable on the command line i rarely need command this complex. I was unable to adapt any of the web solutions to my needs.

How could I use rename to convert underscores in a filename to spaces?



On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:21:33 +0100, "Steve McConville" <mcconville.steve at gmail.com> wrote:
> For future reference there's a perl program called 'rename' which  -
> depending on distro - you may already have installed. It just uses
> regexps, so
> 
> rename 's/^\w{3}//' *.mp3
> 
> would do what you want. John's solution using cut is more portable,
> however.
> 
>