Hello, I need a script that will change the names of all files in a folder by removing the last "X" number of characters, like stuff_blah other_things_blah to stuff other_things Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Samer

What have you done so far? Will the script be required to shorten the name 5 characters or merely everything from the "_" to the end?

Hey David, All I have so far are results from a google search, which can change .jpg files to .JPG, however, I need to truncate the names. i.e. if the people that made those scripts had cut the .jpg and added .JPG I would be able to find my solution, however, they seemed to have used a change to upper command. I just basically need a truncate by 3 characters command, or 4 or whatever. Its is the same number for all the files. By the way, here is the script I found: #!/bin/sh img_dir=$1 if [ -d $img_dir ] then cd $img_dir for image in * do lc_image=`echo $image | awk '{print toupper($0)}'` mv ./$image ./$lc_image done else echo " $1 not a dir" fi

Try something like: for filename in `find . -name *blah*`; do new_name=`echo $filename | sed -e "s/blah//g" $filename` mv $filename $new_name done You can add the "if" prefixes if you like. Vibhor Kumar Agarwal

mv $filename `echo $filename | awk '{ print substr( $0, 0, length($0)-4)}'` feel free to wrap this in a for .. find loop.

hey sameer try this one out .... for old_file_name in *.blah do new_file_name=${$old_file_name%.shd} mv $old_file_name $new_file_name done Best of Luck!!

hey sammer i m sorry i made a mistake in the last post. It goes like this ... for old_file_name in *.blah do new_file_name=${$old_file_name%.blah} mv $old_file_name $new_file_name done Best of Luck!!