[Watford] Bulk Rename Files

[Alain Williams]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:43:05PM +0000, Rob Jefferis wrote:
> Hi guys, I have a load of files in a directory with file names similar to below
> 
> OUT119-20120702-084956-1341215396.177198.gsm
> 
> It is basically OUT(dialingextensionnumber)-DATE-TIME-UNIQUEID.gsm
> 
> I would like to somehow bulk rename all the files in this folder to strip everything other than the uniqueid.gsm bit
> 
> So in this case I want the file to end up called
> 
> 1341215396.177198.gsm
> 
> 
> Is there a quick way to do this?

Using ksh

for file in *.gsm
do	mv $file ${file#~(E:+(OUT+(\d)-+(\d)-+(\d)-))}
done

The syntax is a little strange.

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