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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash: renaming file issues. Post 302599849 by josco1982 on Sunday 19th of February 2012 12:17:37 AM
Old 02-19-2012
Bash: renaming file issues.
Hi, i want to rename a group of directories and files of my music, some items are like this:

[Artist] - [Album], for directories.
[Artist] - [Song title], for files.

I want to do something like this:

[Album], for directories.
[Song title], for files.

This is my code:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
for fname in *.mp3; do
    echo item: $fname
    mv -f $fname ${fname#*-}
done

This is a reduced list of my output:
Code:
user@intel-computer:~/Music/tmp$ ./trim_filename.sh
item: 01 - Bad Romance.mp3
mv: target `Romance.mp3' is not a directory
item: 01 - Just Dance.mp3
mv: target `Dance.mp3' is not a directory
item: 02 - Alejandro.mp3
mv: target `Alejandro.mp3' is not a directory
item: 02 - LoveGame.mp3
mv: target `LoveGame.mp3' is not a directory
item: 03 - Paparazzi.mp3
mv: target `Paparazzi.mp3' is not a directory
item: 04 - Poker Face.mp3
mv: target `Face.mp3' is not a directory
item: 05 - Dance In the Dark.mp3
mv: target `Dark.mp3' is not a directory
item: 06 - Telephone.mp3
mv: target `Telephone.mp3' is not a directory
user@intel-computer:~/Music/tmp$

Can anyone throw some pointers for this?
Thank you for your kind attention.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

mp3tag

MP3TAG(1)						      General Commands Manual							 MP3TAG(1)

NAME

       mp3tag - view and manipulate ID3v1 tags.

SYNOPSIS

       mp3tag [ -s song ] [ -a artist ] [ -l album ] [ -y year ] [ -e comment ] [ -k track ] [ -g genre ] [ -r ] file [ file ... ]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page briefly documents the mp3tag command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the orig-
       inal program does not have one.

       mp3tag is a program that allows you to both view and manipulate ID3v1 metadata tags. Running the command with just a filename will  display
       the file's current tag. Setting some options will cause the tag to be updated and displayed.

OPTIONS

       -a artist
	      Set the artist name to artist. Strings over thirty characters are truncated.

       -e comment
	      Set the comment to comment. Strings over thirty characters are truncated.

       -g genre
	      Set  the	genre to genre. This is a single integer with a value of 0 to 254 corresponding to the appropriate Winamp compatible genre
	      (use '-g list' to list all supported genres).

       -k track
	      Set the track number to track. This is a single integer with a value of 0 to 255. Specifying this field truncates the comment  field
	      to twenty-eight characters, as per the ID3v1.1 standard.

       -l album
	      Set the album name to album. Strings over thirty characters are truncated.

       -r     Merge new tag with any preexisting tag in the file.

       -s song
	      Set the song name to song. Strings over thirty characters are truncated.

       -y year
	      Set the year to year. Strings over four characters are truncated.

EXAMPLES

       Display foo.mp3's current ID3v1 info:

	      mp3tag foo.mp3

       Set foo.mp3's artist to 'Bar', and album to 'Baz':

	      mp3tag -a Bar -l Baz foo.mp3

       Set foo.mp3's year to 2001, merging it with any tag already present:

	      mp3tag -y 2001 -r foo.mp3

AUTHOR

       mp3tag was written by Bram Avontuur <bram@avontuur.org>.

       This manual page was written by Brian Boucheron <brian@boucheron.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but may be used by others).

SEE ALSO

       More info on ID3v1 can be found at <http://www.id3.org/id3v1.html>.

								 February 19, 2004							 MP3TAG(1)
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