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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Remove the last 15 characters of a filename with respect to leave file extension Post 302881312 by Don Cragun on Friday 27th of December 2013 08:37:27 PM
Old 12-27-2013
There is a lot more going on here than removing the last 15 characters before the filename's .mp4 extension. You didn't say anything about changing all single occurrences of underscore (_) to hyphen (-), changing the 1st occurrence of double underscore (__) to a single hyphen, and changing the 2nd occurrence of double underscore to a single space character.

Do all of the files you want to rename end with .mp4?

Were all of the changes noted above intentional?

Are there any other name change peculiarities we need to know about?
 

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DROP 
EXTENSION(7) PostgreSQL 9.2.7 Documentation DROP EXTENSION(7) NAME
DROP_EXTENSION - remove an extension SYNOPSIS
DROP EXTENSION [ IF EXISTS ] name [, ...] [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ] DESCRIPTION
DROP EXTENSION removes extensions from the database. Dropping an extension causes its component objects to be dropped as well. You must own the extension to use DROP EXTENSION. PARAMETERS
IF EXISTS Do not throw an error if the extension does not exist. A notice is issued in this case. name The name of an installed extension. CASCADE Automatically drop objects that depend on the extension. RESTRICT Refuse to drop the extension if any objects depend on it (other than its own member objects and other extensions listed in the same DROP command). This is the default. EXAMPLES
To remove the extension hstore from the current database: DROP EXTENSION hstore; This command will fail if any of hstore's objects are in use in the database, for example if any tables have columns of the hstore type. Add the CASCADE option to forcibly remove those dependent objects as well. COMPATIBILITY
DROP EXTENSION is a PostgreSQL extension. SEE ALSO
CREATE EXTENSION (CREATE_EXTENSION(7)), ALTER EXTENSION (ALTER_EXTENSION(7)) PostgreSQL 9.2.7 2014-02-17 DROP EXTENSION(7)
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