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mugstar
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 Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:13 am Post subject: bash: stripping numeric characters from filenames |
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(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.
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nelz
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:32 am Post subject: Re: bash: stripping numeric characters from filenames |
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| Code: | | for i in *.ogg; do mv "$i" "${i/[0-9][0-9]_name_of_artist_}"; done |
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mugstar
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:45 am Post subject: RE: Re: bash: stripping numeric characters from filenames |
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Aargghhh!! Two seperate ones!
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emyr42
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:13 pm Post subject: RE: Re: bash: stripping numeric characters from filenames |
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Shouldn't your code be reading from the ogg file's metadata to find the track name?
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nordle
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:08 pm Post subject: RE: Re: bash: stripping numeric characters from filenames |
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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
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