Remove prefix from multiple files in Linux console

multiple-files-remove-prefix.md

Bash

for file in prefix*; do mv "$file" "${file#prefix}"; done;

The for loop iterates over all files with the prefix. The do removes from all those files iterated over the prefix.

Here is an example to remove "bla_" form the following files:

bla_1.txt
bla_2.txt
bla_3.txt
blub.txt

Command

for file in bla_*; do mv "$file" "${file#bla_}";done;

Result in file system:

1.txt
2.txt
3.txt
blub.txt

@guisehn, Thank you for sharing this; it saves a significant amount of time!

Thank you!

Where can I find a technical explanation as to what this is doing? It worked for me, but I'm not clear on the formatting in the "do" statement.