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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Truncate file name to 40 characters Post 302385747 by Scrutinizer on Saturday 9th of January 2010 01:40:34 PM
Old 01-09-2010
Try this bash/ksh script that renames the files in the current directory.

Code:
rename_seq ()
{
  seq=1
  oldname="$1"
  newname="$2"
  ext="$3"
  while [ -e "$newname$(printf "%02d" $seq).$ext" ]; do
    (( seq ++ ))
  done
  mv "$oldname.$ext" "$newname$(printf "%02d" $seq).$ext"
}

ls | while read name; do
  ext="${name##*.}"
  name="${name%.*}"
  newname="${name//[<>=?:;\"*+,|]/_}"
  newname="${newname:0:38}"
  if [ -e "${newname}.$ext" ]; then
    rename_seq "$newname" "$newname" "$ext"
  fi
  if [ -e "${newname}"??".$ext" ]; then
    rename_seq "$name" "$newname" "$ext"
  else
    mv "$name.$ext" "$newname.$ext"
  fi
done

 

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NAME
dh_installdeb - install files into the DEBIAN directory SYNOPSIS
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