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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Need help to mass rename files Post 302414263 by pseudocoder on Monday 19th of April 2010 04:00:08 PM
Old 04-19-2010
Code:
$ touch "Émission bla1 bla1.mp3"
$ touch "Émission bla2 bla2.mp3"
$ touch "Émission bla3 bla3.mp3"
$ ls
Émission bla1 bla1.mp3	Émission bla2 bla2.mp3	Émission bla3 bla3.mp3
$ for i in *
do
mv "$i" "`echo $i | sed -e 's/É/E/g'`"
done
$ ls
Emission bla1 bla1.mp3	Emission bla2 bla2.mp3	Emission bla3 bla3.mp3
$

I suggest that you first _copy_ your Émission files into a separate directory and then run the script,
so that your other mp3's stay untouched.
If the renaming process worked, test your new files, if everything is okay, delete your old Émission files,
and move back your new files.

Enjoy!
Last edited by pseudocoder; 04-19-2010 at 05:08 PM.. Reason: added suggestion
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

dr_unsort

dr_symlinks(1)							  USER COMMANDS 						    dr_symlinks(1)

  NAME
      dr_unsort - unsort the current mpd playlist

  SYNOPSIS
      dr_unsort

  DESCRIPTION
      dr_unsort invokes unsort(1) on the current audio playlist as used by mpd.  Use it if you'd like some variation in your music.

  EXAMPLE
      If The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/03-Glass_Onion.ogg is the current playing track and your current playlist looks like

	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/01 Brainfeeder.mp3
	The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/01-Back_in_the_U.S.S.R..ogg
	The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/02-Dear_Prudence.ogg
      > The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/03-Glass_Onion.ogg
	The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/04-Ob-La-Di,_Ob-La-Da.ogg
	The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/05-Wild_Honey_Pie.ogg
	The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/06-The_Continuing_Story_of_Bungalow_Bill.ogg
	The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/07-While_My_Guitar_Gently_Weeps.ogg
	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/02 Breathe . Something_Stellar STar.mp3
	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/03 Beginners Falafel.mp3
	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/04 Camel.mp3
	Napalm_Death/The_Peel_Sessions/01-The_Kill-Prison_Without_Walls-Dead_Part_1.mp3
	Napalm_Death/The_Peel_Sessions/02-Deceiver-Lucid_Fairytale-In_Extremis.mp3
	Napalm_Death/The_Peel_Sessions/03-Blind_To_The_Truth-Negative_Approach-Common_Enemy.mp3
	Napalm_Death/The_Peel_Sessions/04-Obstinate_Direction-Life-You_Suffer_Pt_2.mp3
	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/05 Melt!.mp3
	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/06 Comet Course.mp3
	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/07 Orbit 405.mp3
	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/08 Golden Diva.mp3

      invoking dr_unsort will yield something like e.g.

	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/01 Brainfeeder.mp3
	The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/01-Back_in_the_U.S.S.R..ogg
	The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/02-Dear_Prudence.ogg
      > The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/03-Glass_Onion.ogg
	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/02 Breathe . Something_Stellar STar.mp3
	The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/04-Ob-La-Di,_Ob-La-Da.ogg
	Napalm_Death/The_Peel_Sessions/01-The_Kill-Prison_Without_Walls-Dead_Part_1.mp3
	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/03 Beginners Falafel.mp3
	The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/05-Wild_Honey_Pie.ogg
	Napalm_Death/The_Peel_Sessions/02-Deceiver-Lucid_Fairytale-In_Extremis.mp3
	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/04 Camel.mp3
	The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/06-The_Continuing_Story_of_Bungalow_Bill.ogg
	Napalm_Death/The_Peel_Sessions/03-Blind_To_The_Truth-Negative_Approach-Common_Enemy.mp3
	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/05 Melt!.mp3
	The_Beatles/The_White_Album_I/07-While_My_Guitar_Gently_Weeps.ogg
	Napalm_Death/The_Peel_Sessions/04-Obstinate_Direction-Life-You_Suffer_Pt_2.mp3
	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/06 Comet Course.mp3
	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/07 Orbit 405.mp3
	Flying_Lotus/Los_Angeles/08 Golden Diva.mp3

  WARNING
      Due to limitations in the mpc/mpd protocol, dr_unsort needs filesystem level write access to mpd's playlist directory.

  ENVIRONMENT
      dr_unsort honors strings DR_PLAYLISTS (mpd's playlist directory) and DR_UNSORT (unsort pathname).

  SEE ALSO
      unsort(1), available from http://packages.debian.org/unsort.

  COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
      This manpage is copyright 2010, 2011 Joost van Baal <joostvb-draai@mdcc.cx>.

      Draai is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, as published by the Free
      Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed	WITHOUT  ANY  WAR-
      RANTY. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with draai. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

  AUTHOR
      Joost van Baal <joostvb-draai@mdcc.cx>

  dr_symlinks 20110603						     03 juin 2011						      dr_symlinks(1)
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