On Aug 5, David Smith said: > I have a couple of problems. I have multiple files on a server that are >all audio files. Some are mp3, some are waves. I need to change there >names because of a new automation system being put in here at the >station. The files are curretly laid out with a series of >numbers+songtitle+artist+time.ext. What I simply need to do is remove >the numbers (except for the 3 in mp3), and change the + to _. I found a >script that will do this with regular expressions. Here is the problem >though. I run the script and it does not loop through the file to take >out all of the numbers unless I run it several times. It also refuses to >take out the +. I'm really really new to perl...in fact I know just >enough to be extremely dangerous :D. If anyone could point me in the >right direction I would appreciate.
You didn't show us how you tried running the program. I'll show you first how to change the +'s to _'s. But I need to know WHICH numbers should be removed from the filename. All of them (except for the 3 in mp3), or just those at the beginning of the filename? ./rename 'tr/+/_/' files or ./rename 's/\+/_/g' files -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
