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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: Can you help with rename files? (a bit offtopic, sorry)
From:       "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty () suddenlinkmail ! com>
Date:       2023-12-24 0:41:59
Message-ID: 79e19068-9ed2-4689-8155-996dbd5c434a () suddenlinkmail ! com
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On 12/23/23 18:16, David C. Rankin wrote:
> or if in multiple subdirectories feed a while loop with find:
> 
> while read -r fname; do mv "$fname" "${fname#*_}"; done < <(find the/path 
> -type f -name "*IMG*.png")
> 

And if for some reason you are using POSIX shell instead of bash, just pipe 
the find output to the loop instead of using process substitution, e.g.

find the/path -type f -name "*IMG*.png" | while read -r fname; do mv "$fname" 
"${fname#*_}"; done

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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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