Well, the first statement (for e in *) gets all the files in the
directory. We then take each one (stored in the $e var) and do a mv
(move) from $e to $e. But the second $e we echo it out and pipe it into
sed which does a search/replace on _ with nothing before using it. That
way we end up essentially doing a
mv file_name filename
for each file to rename them without underscores. Not sure how it could
be simplified.
CB
On 12/12/11 5:18 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote:
Gee. All that code just to do that?
I don't get it.
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On Dec 12, 2011, at 4:03 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
Ahh, so you need something like this:
for e in *; do mv "$e" "`echo $e | sed 's/[_]*//g'`"; done
which takes all the files in the current directory and removes the _
from their filename. So two_three-Four.mp3 becomes twothreefour.mp3
CB
On 12/12/11 2:52 PM, Eric Oyen wrote:
what I was attempting to do was remove the underscore from between
filename elements. I have a huge number of mp3 files here.
I use terminal for some of this operation but I tend to lose track
of where I am.
-eric
On Dec 12, 2011, at 8:55 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
I guess I'm not clear what problem you are trying to solve. Are you
trying to add .mp3 to a bunch of files? If that's the case you
could just do this in terminal. Go to the folder with the mp3 files
you want to add .mp3 to and do this:
for e in *; do mv "$e" "`echo $e | sed -e ''`.mp3"; done
You'll find all the files now have .mp3 appended to the end.
Warning, this will also append .mp3 to folders so use with care.
Probably ways to prevent that and do recursion.
CB
On 12/12/11 2:03 AM, Eric Oyen wrote:
well,
I was facing the daunting task of renaming massive numbers of
files (specifically my mp3 library) and I hit upon an idea that I
used to use in windows: using an archive program to store the
media files in (no compression) and then append the proper
extenuation after the file was made. the program in this case is
tar (Tape Archiver). after I get done using tar to create the
storage file, I erase the mp3's involved and then rename the file
with the new .mp3 extenuation. VIOLA! playable mp3 file that even
works in itunes!
sometimes the old tricks are still the best.
this little trick not only cuts down the number of files in my
library, but it makes it easier to copy them to my various devices
for playback.
-eric
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