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benpjohnson on 09/13/07


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Manipulate the names of all the files in a folder in bash

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  1. for FILE in * ; do NEWFILE=`echo $FILE | sed 's/-//g'` ; mv "$FILE" $NEWFILE ; done

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Posted By: benpjohnson on April 15, 2008

replace mv with echo to trial a new rename method

Posted By: benpjohnson on April 15, 2008

replace mv with echo to trial a new rename method

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