[Watford] Bulk Rename Files

[Ian Rogers]

 From the top of my head:

for old in *.gsm ; do
     new=`echo $old | cut -d- -f4`
     mv $old $new
done

Test it first by putting an echo in front of the mv :-)

On 27/11/2012 23:43, 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?
>
> Thanks
>
> Rob
>
>
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