Muhammad Najmi Ahmad Zabidi wrote:
> $ ls *.mp3*
> agama dan aqidah [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -h2cpUXJWMQf1Bj04=
>
> Which I want to rename to this:
> $ ls *.mp3*|awk -F"@*" {'print $1'}
>
> agama dan aqidah b.mp3
>
> I tried to use "for" loop but since the old name contains spaces, I've
> to deal with the spaces as well.
Spaces are no problem as long as you quote arguments properly:
for F in *.mp3*; do
mv -v "$F" "$(echo "$F" | sed -e s,@.*,,)"
done
> I googled and found the solution of
> using "rename", and my cygwin contains this tool as well.
>
> rename.exe -n 's/.mp3*/.m3/' *.mp3*
That is referring to a different version of rename than what comes with
Cygwin. The Cygwin version is a much simplified version that cannot do
regexps, it is only a blind string replacement tool that has no such -n
(or any other named option.) It won't be of use to you in this case.
Brian
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