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RE: Re: bash: stripping numeric characters from filenames

nordle — Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:08 pm

Author: nordle

Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:08 pm

02_name_of_artist_name_of track.ogg

But surely the best you can ever hope for with pattern matching is

name_of_artist_name_of track.ogg

Unless you started with something like:

02_name_of_artist__name_of track.ogg

RE: Re: bash: stripping numeric characters from filenames

emyr42 — Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:13 pm

Author: emyr42

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:13 pm

Shouldn't your code be reading from the ogg file's metadata to find the track name?

RE: Re: bash: stripping numeric characters from filenames

mugstar — Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:45 am

Author: mugstar

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:45 am

Aargghhh!! Two seperate ones!

Thanks!

Re: bash: stripping numeric characters from filenames

nelz — Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:32 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:32 am

Code:

for i in *.ogg; do mv "$i" "${i/[0-9][0-9]_name_of_artist_}"; done

bash: stripping numeric characters from filenames

mugstar — Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:13 am

Author: mugstar

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:13 am

(I just know this will involve regular expressions ... )

I have a collection of mp3's and ogg's, a lot of which take the form 02_name_of_artist_name_of track.ogg. What I want to end up with is a file called name_of_track.ogg.

I know that I can use

Code:

for i in *.ogg; do mv "$i" "${i/_name_of_artist_}"; done

to strip some of the filename out, but I'm messing up when trying to remove the track numbers from the start of more than one file.

Anybody?