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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Rename Multiple Files Post 302815853 by jim mcnamara on Sunday 2nd of June 2013 09:15:19 AM
Old 06-02-2013
One point - consider NOT having spaces in file names. When using cmd.exe or cygwin they can cause problems later on.

This is how it works for what you describe. I put a # in front of the command that renames files. That line is red. Leave it there until you have run through the script, seen the proposed outcomes. Then remove it. In shell # marks the start of a comment - the shell interpreter ignores the stuff after it.

c:/Users/Ralze34/media/mydirectory is a name I made up. Use the correct one. cygwin uses / instead of \ in file names.

this will not work if your files have spaces in the file names
Code:
cd c:/Users/Ralze34/media/mydirectory  # go to where the files are
count=1                                              # start counting at 1
for filename in *                                  # check every file in the directory
do
if  [ -f $filename ] ; then                       # if it a regular file - not a directory
    episode=$(echo "$filename" | awk -F '_'   '{print $6,"_",$7}' )
    newfilename=$(printf "s01e01_%s"  "$episode") # build new file name
    echo "rename $filename to $newfilename"    # show what we did
    # mv $filename $newfilename                  
fi
done

Last edited by jim mcnamara; 06-02-2013 at 09:05 PM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

fc

FC(1)							      General Commands Manual							     FC(1)

NAME

       fc - frontend script to the f2c fortran compiler

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/bin/fc [-o objfile] [-c] [-S] [-C] [-u] [-w] [-w66] [-D switch] [-I includepath] [-Ntnnn] [-P] files [-l library]

DESCRIPTION

       fc  is  a script intended to be used as a front end to the f2c FORTRAN-to-C translator. It is supposed to make the whole f2c and C compiler
       setup look like a real Fortran compiler.

       File arguments with a .f suffix are compiled as Fortran source.	Files with a .F suffix are passed through the C preprocessor cpp(1) first.
       Files with .c (C source) or .s (assembly source) suffixes are passed to the C compiler directly.  Files with a .e suffix are treated as efl
       source files, and files with a .r suffix are treated as RATFOR source files.

OPTIONS

       -o objfile
	       Produce an output executable named objfile rather than using the default name a.out.

       -c      Do not call the linker; instead, leave relocatable object files as *.o.

       -S      Produce assembly output as file.s

       -C      Compile in extra code to check that array subscripts are in bounds.

       -l library
	       Libraries specified with this option are passed to the linker.

       -U def  Definitions specified with this option are passed to C compiler (for .c files) or to cpp (for .F files) to remove definition.

       -u      Complain about undeclared variables.

       -v, --version
	       Print version of f2c in use

       -w      Omit all warning messages.

       -w66    Omit Fortran 66 (Fortran IV) compatibility warning messages.

       -D switch
	       The given switch is passed to the C compiler (for .c files), to cpp (for .F files) and to f2c.

       -I includepath
	       Passed to the C compiler (for .c files), to cpp (for .F files) and to f2c.

       -Ntnnn  Allow nnn entries in table t.

       -P      Emit .P files.

BUGS

       fc isn't really very good -- try fort77 (1), which does a better job.
       This manual page isn't really very good either...

AUTHOR

       S. Feldman, D. Gay, M. Maimone, N, Schryer are all mentioned in the paper on the conversion of Fortran to C.
       Peter Maydell (pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk) wrote this manual page, and Alan Bain (alanb@chiark.greenend.org.uk) made some minor  modi-
       fications.

SEE ALSO

       f2c(1), fort77(1), cc(1), cpp(1), ratfor(1)

								     May 1999								     FC(1)
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