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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting batch renaming ... Post 302355604 by OneDreamCloser on Wednesday 23rd of September 2009 07:47:08 AM
Old 09-23-2009
batch renaming ...
hi all,

given a path, for example :
/<pwd>/artist/album/

what i would like to do is to rename the album directory like that :
/<pwd>/artist/artist | album/

and i would like to do the latter for all the "artist" directories
and for all the "album" directories that belong to an artist

i don t really want to mess my music directory, that s why i am asking for your help

thanx
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

eugene

eugene(1)						      General Commands Manual							 eugene(1)

NAME

       eugene - mpdcron statistics client

SYNOPSIS

       eugene command [option]

DESCRIPTION

       eugene is an mpdcron client which can be used to interact with the statistics database.

COMMANDS

       By default these commands (except the first three) work on the current playing song.

       For more information about the expression syntax, see: <http://www.sqlite.org/lang_expr.html>.

       help   Display help and exit.

       version
	      Display version and exit.

       list [option...] expression
	      List song/artist/album/genre.

       listinfo [option...] [expression]
	      List song/artist/album/genre.

       count [option...] count [expression]
	      Change play count of song/artist/album/genre.

       countabs [option...] count [expression]
	      Change (absolute fashion) play count of song/artist/album/genre.

       hate [option...] [expression]
	      Hate song/artist/album/genre.

       love [option...] [expression]
	      Love song/artist/album/genre.

       kill [option...] [expression]
	      Kill song/artist/album/genre.

       unkill [option...] [expression]
	      Unkill song/artist/album/genre.

       rate [option...] rating [expression]
	      Rate song/artist/album/genre.

       rateabs [option...] rating [expression]
	      Rate (absolute fashion) song/artist/album/genre.

       addtag [option...] tag [expression]
	      Add tag to song/artist/album/genre.

       rmtag [option...] tag [expression]
	      Remove tag from song/artist/album/genre.

       listtags [option...] [expression]
	      List tags of song/artist/album/genre.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      Show help options.

       -a, --artist
	      Apply on artists instead of songs.

       -A, --album
	      Apply on albums instead of songs.

       -g, --genre
	      Apply on genres instead of songs.

SEE ALSO

       o mpdcron(1)

       o <http://alip.github.com/mpdcron/>

REPORTING BUGS

       If you find a bug, please report it at <http://github.com/alip/mpdcron/issues>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2009 Ali Polatel <alip@exherbo.org>
       Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

AUTHORS

       David Prevot <david@tilapin.org>.

manual								 February 25, 2011							 eugene(1)
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