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Old 04-23-2012
[Solved] Rename file name / remove part of name
I have a whole file structure with jpeg files where I want to remove a part of the file name. An application added in many files a case conflict in the naming "xyz 017.jpg (Case Conflict 1)"

So, can someone help me how to get rid of the " (Case Conflict 1)"? What I have is this:

Code:
find . -name "*.jpg (Case Conflict 1)" -depth -exec rename '????' {} \;

Thanks!
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Old 04-23-2012
Hi borobudur,

One way:
Code:
$ perl -e 'for ( @ARGV ) { ($newfile = $_) =~ s/\(.*\)\Z// ; rename $_, $newfile and printf qq[%s\n], qq[Renamed $_] }' *jpg*
Renamed xyz 017.jpg (Case Conflict 1)
Renamed xyz 018.jpg (Case Conflict 1)

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Old 04-24-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by birei
Hi borobudur,

One way:
Code:
$ perl -e 'for ( @ARGV ) { ($newfile = $_) =~ s/\(.*\)\Z// ; rename $_, $newfile and printf qq[%s\n], qq[Renamed $_] }' *jpg*
Renamed xyz 017.jpg (Case Conflict 1)
Renamed xyz 018.jpg (Case Conflict 1)

Thanks! But there is still a withe space at the end from ...jpg (C...
And an other thing is how can I walk recursively through the file structure?


---------- Post updated 04-24-12 at 01:00 PM ---------- Previous update was 04-23-12 at 08:27 PM ----------

That worked fine:
Code:
find . -type f -exec rename 's/\ \(Case Conflict 1\)$//' {} \;

 
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