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Old October 22nd, 2002, 01:12 PM
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Unhappy truncating file names
I have about 1000+ files in different directories named ?????RN.jpg. Is there someting at the command line that I can use to delete the RN (recursively if possible)?
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rm *RN.jpg
for deleting all those files in the current directory,info rm and man rm will give you more info on how to delete those files in all the subfolders.
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Just to be clear, do you want to delete the files or rename them?
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That's what I was thinking.

Disclaimer: Tuxie's thing will DELETE them.

If you want to recursively RENAME them so the RN is gone just whip up a quick shell or perl script.
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