Sad thing about getting old. Memory ain't what it used to be. About 15 years or so ago, I wrote a script to trim filenames. What I did with the script was to download a group of files from an ftp site to a folder. The files were named something like
ABC 12-12-20 TodayShow.mp3 The "TodayShow" was different for each file. I needed to remove everything after the date, rename the file and move it to another folder. The trimming portion of the script was cd /home/Xfer/downloads for FILE in *.mp3; do mv "$FILE" "$(echo "$FILE"|tr ' ' '_')"; done for FILE in *.mp3; do mv "$FILE" ${FILE%%???????.mp3}.mp3; done I need to update this script for a similar purpose. I just can't remember exactly how this works. Would someone mind please translating or explaining this to me so I can modify it? Thanks, Michael _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug