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Renaming files
Name: felix dabid Date: November 26, 2003 at 01:49:10 Pacific OS: NT4 CPU/Ram: PIII1Ghz
Comment:
I want to rename a file called barp_1234.txt to bar_1234.txt. I have files like this...
barp_0001.txt barp_0002.txt and so on.
I've tried rename barp_* bar_* but that results in this filename bar__0001.txt.
Is there any way I can rename the file and remove one character from the new filename.
Understand what I'm talking about, or am I just confused? ;)
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