> What is the simplest way to do such renaming ?
> I have many file with the same preceding string in their name.
> I want to remove that.
by using perl like this:
while(<*.for>) {
$oldname = $_;
s/\.for$/\.f/;
rename $oldname, $_;
}
this takes all filenames ending with .for and renames them to .f
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