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Remove the ABCD– prefix from a filename:
$ s='ABCD--11212239.pdf'
$ mv \"$s\" \"${s#ABCD--}\"<\/code>

Remove the prefix from all files in current directory recursively:
while IFS= read -r -d '' filename; do
mv \"$filename\" \"${filename#ABCD--}\"
done < <(find . -type f -name 'ABCD--*' -print0)<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remove the .pdf suffix from a filename:
$ s='ABCD--11212239.pdf'
$ mv \"$s\" \"${s%.pdf}\"<\/code>

Remove the “r_” prefix from all the files in the current directory:
for each in ls r_*; do mv $filename ${filename#r_}; done<\/code>

Remove the “pdf” suffix from all the files in the current directory recursively:
while IFS= read -r -d '' filename; do
mv \"$filename\" \"${filename%.pdf}\"
done < <(find . -type f -name '*.pdf' -print0)<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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