On Mi, 2008-08-27 at 17:44 +0200, Ulf Rompe wrote: > You may well do it with mv instead of rename: > > find . -name "Link to *" | while read name; do mv "$name" "`echo $name | sed -e "s/Link to //"`"; done ...at least if you replace the inner pair of double quotes with single quotes... [x] ulf -- TEAMWORK... means never having to take all the blame yourself.