Re: I have a folder which is having 1200 files,all the file names are have maximum of 8 character length.I need to remove last character from each of the filnames and prefix it with character "A"

in reply to I have a folder which is having 1200 files,all the file names are have maximum of 8 character length.I need to remove last character from each of the filnames and prefix it with character "A"

See rename, split, join, length, and substr for some ideas. You may also want to see -e to check if a file or directory exists. Before using rename, you will likely want to do a test run with just printing.

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