[PLUG] Rename script

[Russell Evans]

I know this has been answered, but I was wondering if this works with other
shells besides Bash?

for i in * ; do mv "$i" ${i##*_} ; done


Thank you
Russell


On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 17:06:34 -0700, Michael Montagne said:

> I need a shell script to rename many files.  The files names look like:
>  "N Clackamas Conformance Vol 2 01-18-00_S607.tif" and 
>  "N Clackamas Conformance Vol 2 01-18-00_S608.tif".
>  I want to strip the prefix and just have S607.tif and S608.tif.
>  I think the prefixes are all the same.  
>  For sure they all have an underscore preceding the part that I want.  
>  The easy part is that they are all in the same directory.
>  
>