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# 1  
Old 04-17-2016
Recursivly rename folders removing characters as required
HI guys here's hoping some on pout the can help

I have a large library of epub and mobi file creates some what by calibre.

Output of tree listing below

Quote:
│** ├── Paddy Whacked_ The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster (581)
│** │** ├── cover.jpg
│** │** ├── metadata.opf
│** │** └── Paddy Whacked_ The Untold Story of the Iri - T. J. English.mobi
│** └── The Savage City_ Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge (619)
│** ├── cover.jpg
│** ├── metadata.opf
│** └── The Savage City_ Race, Murder, and a Gener - T. J. English.mobi
├── Tom Philbin
│** └── Killer Book of Cold Cases_ Incredible Stories, Facts, and Trivia From the Most Baffling True Cr (570)
│** ├── cover.jpg
│** ├── Killer Book of Cold Cases_ Incredible Stor - Tom Philbin.epub
│** ├── Killer Book of Cold Cases_ Incredible Stor - Tom Philbin.mobi
│** └── metadata.opf
├── Tony Bennett
│** └── The Good Life (789)
│** ├── cover.jpg
│** ├── metadata.opf
│** ├── The Good Life - Tony Bennett.epub
│** └── The Good Life - Tony Bennett.mobi
├── Trevor Marriott
│** └── The Evil Within - a Top Murder Squad Detective Reveals the Chilling True Stories of the World's (572)
│** ├── cover.jpg
│** ├── metadata.opf
│** ├── The Evil Within - a Top Murder Squad Detec - Trevor Marriott.epub
│** └── The Evil Within - a Top Murder Squad Detec - Trevor Marriott.mobi
├── Troy Denning
│** ├── Book 1 - A Forest Apart (737)
│** │** ├── Book 1 - A Forest Apart - Troy Denning.epub
│** │** ├── Book 1 - A Forest Apart - Troy Denning.mobi
│** │** ├── cover.jpg
I would like to recursively rename the directories removing the brackets and numbers

Quote:
│** ├── Paddy Whacked_ The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster
│** │** ├── cover.jpg
│** │** ├── metadata.opf
│** │** └── Paddy Whacked_ The Untold Story of the Iri - T. J. English.mobi
│** └── The Savage City_ Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge
│** ├── cover.jpg
│** ├── metadata.opf
│** └── The Savage City_ Race, Murder, and a Gener - T. J. English.mobi
├── Tom Philbin
│** └── Killer Book of Cold Cases_ Incredible Stories, Facts, and Trivia From the Most Baffling True Cr
│** ├── cover.jpg
│** ├── Killer Book of Cold Cases_ Incredible Stor - Tom Philbin.epub
│** ├── Killer Book of Cold Cases_ Incredible Stor - Tom Philbin.mobi
│** └── metadata.opf
├── Tony Bennett
│** └── The Good Life
│** ├── cover.jpg
│** ├── metadata.opf
│** ├── The Good Life - Tony Bennett.epub
│** └── The Good Life - Tony Bennett.mobi
├── Trevor Marriott
│** └── The Evil Within - a Top Murder Squad Detective Reveals the Chilling True Stories of the World's
│** ├── cover.jpg
│** ├── metadata.opf
│** ├── The Evil Within - a Top Murder Squad Detec - Trevor Marriott.epub
│** └── The Evil Within - a Top Murder Squad Detec - Trevor Marriott.mobi
├── Troy Denning
│** ├── Book 1 - A Forest Apart
│** │** ├── Book 1 - A Forest Apart - Troy Denning.epub
│** │** ├── Book 1 - A Forest Apart - Troy Denning.mobi
│** │** ├── cover.jpg
I have been scratching my head over this one all day so any help would be gratefully appreciated
# 2  
Old 04-17-2016
Any attempts beyond scatching your head?
# 3  
Old 04-17-2016
yeah although i got a few splinters from the scratching

I can accomplish this fine with a line of text ie

Quote:
echo "The Evil Within - a Top Murder Squad Detective Reveals the Chilling True Stories of the World's (572)" | sed 's/(.*//'
give me the output i would like to rename to but how to apply this recursively to all directories is currently evading me
# 4  
Old 04-17-2016
Try
Code:
find . -type d -name "*([0-9]*)" | while read FN; do echo mv $FN ${FN%([0-9]*)}; done

This doesn't check for three digits but allows for anything after the first digit; this may need some refinement. If the results comes close to what you need, remove the echo for real action.
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dunryc
# 5  
Old 04-17-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
Try
Code:
find . -type d -name "*([0-9]*)" | while read FN; do echo mv $FN ${FN%([0-9]*)}; done

This doesn't check for three digits but allows for anything after the first digit; this may need some refinement. If the results comes close to what you need, remove the echo for real action.
Thanks for the heads up had to add some inverted commas due to spaces in the names so

Quote:
find . -type d -name "*([0-9]*)" | while read FN; do mv "$FN" "${FN%([0-9]*)}"; done
worked a treat Smilie
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