Renaming files

[Robert2]

I have files with names like these:

truth-out.org-Billions Against Bayer Here We Come.pdf
nytimes.com-An Email Trail Leads to Gov Walker.pdf
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com-A Lie Too Far.pdf
takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com-Donald Trumps Cynical Play for Womens Votes.pdf

Is there a way to mass rename these files so that everything up to and including the dash character is removed?
TIA.
Robert

[nikos]

not at present
i'm not even sure this could be done with regular expression mass rename

[FrizzleFry]

matching the site name prefixes should not be a problem for a regex renamer...

^.+\.(com|org)-

here is a quick PowerShell script that should do it...

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gci *.pdf | foreach-object {
	$_.name
	$newname = $_.name -replace '^.+\.(com|org)-'
	$newname
	''
	#rename-item $_.fullname $newname
}

I commented out the actual rename so you can test it first

[Robert2]

Thanks a lot! This worked beautifully!