[ILUG] Strip first three characters from filename

[Colm Buckley]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 6:59 PM, <ollie at eillo.org> wrote:

>
> 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?


rename 's/_/ /g' *.mp3 (convert all _ to space)
rename 's/_/ /' *.mp3 (convert only the first _ to space)

The operation of "rename" really requires familiarity with Perl regular
expressions and the regular expression operators like s// and y//  There's
lots of information online about these.

Colm

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