Re: Renaming files with rename and perl expression

2011-10-06 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:57:51 -0300 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Hello Eduardo, > That looses the trailing zeroes. Try this: ITYM leading. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" Walking through town is quite scary I Pr

Re: Renaming files with rename and perl expression

2011-10-06 Thread Mike McClain
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 03:35:48PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hi, > > Where can I study perl expressions? subscribe to beginn...@perl.org mailing list. perldoc perlre perldoc perlretut Happing perling, Mike -- Satisfied user of Linux since 1997. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www

Re: Renaming files with rename and perl expression

2011-10-06 Thread Csanyi Pal
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes: > On 10/06/2011 10:54 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> >> Something like >> >> rename -n 's/(\d+)/$1+198/e' *.JPG >> >> should do the trick, but note that it might match other files. > > That looses the trailing zeroes. Try this: > > rename -n 's/(\d+)/sprintf("%05d

Re: Renaming files with rename and perl expression

2011-10-06 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 03:35:48PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hi, > > I have a directory with filenames as follows: > [cut] I think what you need is something a little more than just s///. rename will take any perl expression, which, as the man page says, is expected to rename $_ (which is a per

Re: Renaming files with rename and perl expression

2011-10-06 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 10/06/2011 10:54 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > Something like > > rename -n 's/(\d+)/$1+198/e' *.JPG > > should do the trick, but note that it might match other files. That looses the trailing zeroes. Try this: rename -n 's/(\d+)/sprintf("%05d", $1+198)/e' *.JPG -- poverty, n.:

Re: Renaming files with rename and perl expression

2011-10-06 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 10/06/2011 10:35 AM, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hi, > > I have a directory with filenames as follows: > > PIC1.JPG > PIC2.JPG > .. > PIC00036.JPG > > I want to get renamed those to > PIC00199.JPG > PIC00200.JPG > .. > PIC00234.JPG > > I'm trying to use for this the 'rename' command with perl

Re: Renaming files

2003-01-05 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 21:57:45 -0600 will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 01:19:59AM -0600, Gerald V. Livingston II > wrote: > > The script:cat ~/bin/names > > > > #!/bin/bash > > > > typeset -i a=1 > > > how about > > ls /t/*.jpg /t/*.JPG /t/*.jpeg 2>/dev/null

Re: Renaming files

2003-01-05 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 01:19:59AM -0600, Gerald V. Livingston II wrote: > The script:cat ~/bin/names > > #!/bin/bash > > typeset -i a=1 > > if [ `ls /t/*.jpg 2>/dev/null|wc -l` -gt 0 ] > then for i in /t/*.jpg; >do mmv "$i" /t/`date +%s`-$a.jpg; a=a+1; done > if [ `ls /t/*.JPG 2>/dev/nul

Re: renaming files

2001-01-28 Thread Moritz Schulte
brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > for name in *.mp3; do > > newname=$(echo "$name" | sed -e 's/[ "\(\),]//g') > > echo "Moving \"$name\" to \"$newname\"" > > mv -i "$name" "$newname" > > done > > Oh, goodness, that looks complex. > > % rename 's/[ ,"()]/_/g' *.mp3 Why do it the

Re: renaming files

2001-01-28 Thread brian moore
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 12:12:53PM +0100, Moritz Schulte wrote: > "oj ." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have a bunch of files (*.mp3) that have spaces and characteres > > such as: ", ( ,_. I would like to remove all the spaces and > > characteres and leave them as: xshkjds_jskdjks_jsdj.mp3. >

Re: renaming files

2001-01-27 Thread Moritz Schulte
"oj ." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a bunch of files (*.mp3) that have spaces and characteres > such as: ", ( ,_. I would like to remove all the spaces and > characteres and leave them as: xshkjds_jskdjks_jsdj.mp3. for name in *.mp3; do newname=$(echo "$name" | sed -e 's/[ "\(\),]//g')