On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 12:39:26PM -0500, Jesus Arocho wrote: > I want to rename a series of photo files downloaded from a camera; the intent > is to append the date to the beginning of the file name. The relevant lines > are: > > newdir=`date +%F | sed 's/-//g'` #newdir used to make the directory and to > rename the files. > > new=??`echo $i | sed -e 's/_//'` # strip the current file name of the > underline > in the middle dsc_0001.jpg to dsc0001.jpg > > mv -f $i $newdir'_'$new #rename the current file > > The resulting file name may contain an extraneous character (does not print) > located just after the _ ; as if the echo/sed combination had added a > character. The processing continues because the loop is selecting all jpg or > nef files, but trying to do something with the file from the command line > results in file not found. I can see the extra character in konqueror. > This seems overly complicated. Why not just use rename(1)? It supports Perl-compatible REs. For example, to get rid of the underscore:
rename 's/_//' *.jpg And so on. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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