How to remove first 2 character from file name

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi All

Please help me to remove the first 2 character from the file name.

files are like this

$ ls
12aman file
13atul si
56rana se

I want to remove the first 2 char which are numbers.
I want the o/p like thus

aman file
atul si
rana se

thanks for help

2 
sed -i 's/^..//g' filename

Please note this will modify the source file with the required output.
if the -i option doesn't supported please redirect the output to a file.

3 
awk ' { print substr($0,3,length($0)) }' filename > new_file_name
4

thanks guys..
But I want to change the name of files which have space in between.
like this

mv '12papa doc' 'papa doc'

this is simple for one file, but I want to write a code which can able to change many files.

I tried this

for foobar in * ;
do
  temp=`echo "$foobar" | cut -c 3-`
  mv $foobar "$temp" ;
done

and got this error

$ ls

aman singh
papa mummy

Error

mv: target `an singh' is not a directory
mv: target `pa mummy' is not a directory

please help

5

post your ls -l output.

6

Check this, it will remove all the leading numbers,

sed 's/^[0-9]*//g' inpfile
7

Quote variable foobar as well in the mv command and try

mv "$foobar" "$temp"
8

thanks Man :slight_smile:
I miss the quotes

thanks a lot

9

A final script will be something like this:

 
ls [0-9][0-9]* | while read line
do
new_f=`echo "$line" | sed 's/..//'`
mv "$line" "$new_f"
done