Re: how to rename multiple files?


Subject: Re: how to rename multiple files?
From: James Bagley Jr. (james@thelostnet.net)
Date: Fri Feb 22 2002 - 12:19:53 AKST


You will have to play with the formatting a little, but:

for file in *
do
    mv $file `echo $file | awk -F\- '{ print $3 "-" $4 }'`
done

On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Justin Dieters (RPKA) wrote:

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> Hello all. I'm sure this is possible with some sort of script mumbo-jumbo,
> but I was hoping there was a quick and dirty solution. Is there a way to
> rename more than one file at the same time? For example, my mp3 files are
> currently in the format of 'Artist - Album - Track# - Name.mp3' and I want
> to rename them all to just 'Track# - Name.mp3' because they currently are
> too long for their names to fit properly on a CD.. currently everything
> more than 64 characters gets chopped off... It gets tedious renaming dozens
> and dozens of files.. :)
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> Thanks,
> Justin
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