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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Sed or Awk usage to rename string Post 302461556 by Scrutinizer on Monday 11th of October 2010 03:39:39 PM
Old 10-11-2010
Hi it is faster than awk or sed since no external programs need to be called from the shell to do the parsing..

for i in *_*_*.wavfor every file in the directory with this pattern
t=${i#*_}remove the part before the first _ and put the remainder in variable t
mv "$i" "${i%.*}-${t%%of*}.${i##*.}"mv file "$i" to the part of $i upto the extension (the last dot), followed by a "-" and variable $t with the part "of" and further cut off (which leaves the sequence number), then a dot (.) and then the extension of variable $i (everything before the last dot cut off)
I hope this helps. It can look a bit cryptic at first, but it really isn't that complicated..

Since $i will always contain files ending in .wav, this is equivalent in this case:
Code:
for i in *_*_*.wav
do
  t=${i#*_}
  mv "$i" "${i%.wav}-${t%%of*}.wav"
done


Last edited by Scrutinizer; 10-18-2010 at 11:04 AM..
 

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tape2wav(1)							     Emulators							       tape2wav(1)

NAME
tape2wav - Sinclair ZX Spectrum tape to wav audio file converter SYNOPSIS
tape2wav [ -r sample rate ] infile outfile DESCRIPTION
tape2wav converts audio files to ZX Spectrum tape images. OPTIONS
-r sample rate causes sample rate to be used as the sample rate for the target wav file. infile specifies the tape file to be converted. This file can be in any of the tape formats supported by libspectrum(3). outfile specifies the output wav file. BUGS
None known. SEE ALSO
fuse(1), fuse-utils(1), libspectrum(3), listbasic(1), tapeconv(1), tzxlist(1), snap2tzx(1), tape2wav(1) The comp.sys.sinclair Spectrum FAQ, at http://www.worldofspectrum.org/faq/index.html. AUTHOR
Fredrick Meunier (fredm@spamcop.net). Version 1.0.0 16th December, 2010 tape2wav(1)
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