Script Required for Manipulating Directory Names

[buster2209]

I'm looking for a simple bash script that I can execute that will strip the first 5 chars of each folder name in a given folder.

Any ideas?

[steeldriver]

something like

find . -type d -exec rename -nv 's/.{5}//' {} \;

maybe? remove the -n option when you've got the match working right

You can add a -maxdepth to the find if you don't want it to descend recursively, or just

rename -nv 's/.{5}//' */

to just rename directories directly below the current dir

[Lars Noodén]

That munges the beginning of the paths!

Here's a variant:

find /some/path/ -type d -exec rename -nv 's/\/[^\/]{5}([^\/]*)$/\/$1/' {} \;

Edit: thanks steeldriver, it's now corrected.

[steeldriver]

oops you're right - thanks for the correction Lars!

EDIT: I think the regex might need something to explicitly catch the trailing part though?

's/\/[^\/]{5}([^\/]*)$/\/$1/'

[buster2209]

Thanks, I will try this later