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I have a list of folders video_0001 video_0002 video_0003 ...
How do I rename them all to 0001 0002 0003 ... ? I tried


mv video_{0001..0003} {0001..0003} but it does not work


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You can do it in a for loop by starting at the 7th character of each file (remember counting starts at 0) and saving the last 4 characters of each file.


for f in video_*; do mv $f ${f:6:4}; done

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