Bash scripting : How do I rename files to remove numeric characters at the beginning ?

Question

mv command doesnt accept pattern matching like grep !
Whats the good way to handle this and similar kind of operations ?

Answer 1

There's the rename tool, but if that's not what you want, you can do:

for file in *; do
    new_file="${file##[0-9]}" # Strip all leading numbers
    mv "$file" "$newfile"
done