Re: [LUG] Batch renaming of files

[Steve Marvell <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gemma Peter wrote:

> I got all the photos off the digital camera and saved them on my hard 
> drive (thanks to all those who helped at the Plymouth meeting). Now 
> gphoto has saved them to a directory with names in the format "-XXX.jpg" 
> where XXX is a three digit sequential number. How can I get rid of the 
> "-" at the beginning without having to rename each file individually?

for f in -*; do mv -- $f ${f#?}; done

Steve

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