Gabriel L. Briones III wrote:
> I have lot's of mp3 files that has this format
>
> Mr.%20Big%20-%20Just%20Take%20My%20Heart.mp3
>
>
> what I did to rename this file in a more readable form is this
>
> $ mv Mr.%20Big%20-%20Just%20Take%20My%20Heart.mp3 "Mr. Big - Just Take My
> Heart.mp3"
>
> But you dont want to do that if you have thousands of files.
>
> I know that a script can do this but I don't know how to do it.
> Can somebody please enlighten me on this?
Try this too:
#!/bin/bash
for mp in *.mp3
do
new=${mp//"\%20"/_}
mv $mp $new
done
I use "_" as the replacement string not a whitespace since it's
simpler. Using a whitespace would give out error for the mv command.
--
Benj
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