fine rename problem

MiCr0

Evening All,
I've got a series of files that I need to rename.
they are in this format: ......28235.crt

Any one know a good way to remove the ......'s from the start of the file names? The sed part of this command is showing my knowledge gap.

for file in *.crt ; do mv $file `echo $file | sed 's///'` ; done

Thanks,
MiCr0

Typedef

for file in *
do
        echo $file | awk '{sub(" ......","",$1); print $1}'| xargs cp $file
done

?

niallb

Hi MiCrO,
indeed a fine rename problem.

Seeing as typedef got there first with an awkism,
I'll try the fewest keystrokes.

This works too:
find . -type f -ok rename \.\.\.\.\.\. '' '{}' \;
and it looks suitably obscure. :-)
(All quotes are single quotes - no backtick/primes)

Once you're sure it does what you want, replace the
-ok with -exec to lose the prompting.

NiallB

p.s.
for file in *.crt ; do mv $file `echo $file | sed 's/\.\.\.\.\.\.//'` ; done
would actually work by the way if your shell can see the files.
You might need a for file in `/bin/ls -A *.crt`.