Help Renaming Multple Files

[Uwe Doering]

Phusion wrote:
> I need help figuring out how to rename multple files. The files are
> named like reports_abcdef_YYYYMMDD.dat, reports_hijklm_YYYYMMDD.dat,
> and reports_nopqrs_YYYYMMDD.dat. Here is an example.
> 
> Original Filename: reports_abcdef_YYYYMMDD.dat
> New Filename: abcdef_YYYYMMDD.dat
> 
> Let me know how I can do this. Thanks.

You may want to take a look at the 'mmv' package (ports/misc/mmv).

    Uwe
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