lgallen/remove_leading.sh

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Linux command useful for removing leading characters when all filenames in a directory have the same format

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remove_leading.sh

cd <path_to_directory_containing_files> && for file in *<file_type>; do mv "$file" "${file:<number_of_leading_characters_to_remove>}"; done

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