Strip file name until character

Hi all,
i have a bunch of files (>> 100) which i would like to batch rename.
Every file starts with a random sequence followed by the character "-", filename.jpg
e.g.
45sdfm4rf-holiday01.jpg
dfgfdlfkssdfqwe-garden01.jpg
the result should be
holiday01.jpg
garden01.jpg
any ideas? i tried a loop with sed but i couldn't get it managed to rename the files probably.
thanks in advance!

broken pipe wrote:
thank you guys!
for file in *; do mv $file ${file#*-}; done
did the trick! so much easier than i thought! :>
Just a note, # will match and remove the shortest match (eg asfadsf-text-file.txt -> text-file.txt) if you want the longest, use ## (dfsaf-adsf-textfile.txt -> textfile.txt).
I used to forget that stuff all the time. The/A bash guide is well worth a peruse, even if it's just to get an idea that these things are in it.
Incidentally, I'd save that as a commented script file for future use (if you feel energetic, you could do stuff like add in the delimiter as a parameter, etc.). I'd make WorMzy's caveat prominent in it, too.
Oh and, please mark the thread as solved.

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