How do you type the RegEx from point 5 below in a Terminal-window?




On 31 Aug 2017, at 19:47, Roland Küffner wrote:

to bring this back to BBEdit, here is another „BBEdit only“ solution:

1. Create a new Unix Worksheet
2. type cd and drag your music folder after it, giving you something like cd '~/path/to folder' (add the quotation marks manually if you have spaces
in the file path
3. hint <Enter> (the <Return on the number block)
4. Now type „ls“ and <Enter> again.
5 Search-replace
^(.+) - (.+)
and replacing it with
mv '&' '\2 - \1'
6. Mark the lines with your folders and <Enter> again

That’s it. But, please test this on example data before breaking something
(backups are your friend)

Enjoy, Roland

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 4:27 PM, Vlad Ghitulescu <[email protected]> wrote:

Thanks, Rich - I didn't even think about this alternative.

But: I needed a RegEx to put it in A Better Finder Rename (or an
AppleScript for renaming the files). That would not be possible with the
TSV-solution.


Regards,
Vlad






On 30 Aug 2017, at 22:24, Rich Siegel wrote:

On Wednesday, August 30, 2017, Vlad Ghitulescu <[email protected]> wrote:

I have a couple of folder named like this (Artist - Title):


I'd begin by changing the document to TSV (search for " - " and replace with "\t"), and then use "Columns => Rearrange Columns" (on the Edit menu
in the BBEdit 12 pre-release builds) and see how that works.

R.
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