On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 09:24 -0600, Ryan Byrd wrote:
> I wanted to get first post...
Well you got the first lame top-post anyway.
>
> Here's my solution:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> for i in $( ls );
That can't deal with spaces in the names. Neither does Dave's example.
Also, the original problem (/me scrolls down to the bottom to see...
sigh) talks about directories not files. Hence:
find * -type d -maxdepth 0 | while read $d; do
tgt=`expr substr $d 1 5`
mv $d $tgt
done
> do
> src=$i
> tgt=`expr substr $i 1 5`
> mv $src $tgt
> done
>
>
> On 5/16/07, Dave Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
> > > I have a directory full of directories that are all named in the
> > > following manner:
>> > <snip>
> > > Is there an easy way via the command line to truncate them to just the
> > > first five characters (which would be just their ID number)?
><snip>
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