From: Al Aab <af137@freenet.toronto.on.ca>>
Sent: 11 September 1996 21:21

============================= seders newsletter #4 ============================

1. Is it possible to build a BNF grammar in sed?
2. Here is an extract form a newsgroup. The solution is in UNIX ksh & sed.
   But it could be done in DOS batch language & sed.

In article <RED.2.000CCDB7@sim.ucm.es>, red@sim.ucm.es writes:

> I am using an INTERACTIVE UNIX System V Release 3.2. I have to change a lot of
> file names from format:
> 
>                    REDDIG1234.cfg
>                    REDDIG1234.log
>                    REDDIG654.net
>                              ...
> 
> to format:
> 
>                     1234.cfg
>                     1234.log
>                     654.net
>                         ...
> 
> I need to delete the characters 'REDDIG' from the files names. I am not a very
> experimented UNIX user and I am worry because I need to change this format in 
> about 1.000 file names in a week.
> 
> If you could help me, I would be very grateful to you.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 

If you have ksh available, a script similar to the following should work.

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