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Thanks Rakeshawasthi! Worked perfectly :)

Hi all,

I have this basic script to remove, in this case 9 characters from the end of a file name. This is what I have so far,

for file in *.mov
do
newname=`echo $file | sed...

ghostdog74,

This is what I have so far, running this from /bin/sh

for file in *.pdf
do
mv $f `cut -c 12- <<END
$f
END
`
done

ghostdog74,

I've learnt that the simpler way to do this would be to delete a certain amount of text from the end of the filename. This would be the easiest way to do it. I appreciate all the...

Hi all,

I am trying to write a script that will delete a certain amount of text from the end of a filename.

For example.

Input:

name of file (more text).pdf

Output:

name of file.pdf...

Hi,

I have files with names in the following naming pattern,

Name.of.movie[2008]moretext-moretext.mov

or

Name of movie[2008]moretext-moretext.mov

And I would like to delete the [year]...

Colmar THAT'S AWESOME!!! THANK YOU FOR NOT ONLY GIVING ME THE SCRIPT I NEEDED BUT EXPLAINING THE WHOLE THING AS WELL.

Thanks Again. :D:D:D:D:D:D

Hi all,

Can I edit this script:

find . -type f | while read i;do [ "$i" != "${i//abc/}" ] && mv "$i" "${i//abc/}" ;done

so that it will not only take out abc from the filename but also take...

I think the best way to describe this and simplify the matter would be to say -

Can I edit this script:

find . -type f | while read i;do [ "$i" != "${i//abc/}" ] && mv "$i" "${i//abc/}" ;done
...

Can anyone help me on this one?

Hi all,

I currently use this code to delete text from file names when they are dropped in a folder.

find . -type f | while read i;do [ "$i" != "${i//2009abc/}" ] && mv "$i" "${i//2009abc/}"...

Devaraj,

WORKED PERFECTLY!!!!!

Thanks Again. :)

Devaraj,

Ok I get it now...

Is there a way to not have to put in the filename? So the script changes any file in the folder that has a .mov extension?

tr '.' ' ' < *.mov | sed 's/\(.*\)...

Devaraj,

Thanks for the quick reply!

Sorry for asking a stupid question but do I run the tr script from terminal on a mac or save as a shell script.

Or something completely different

Hi all,

I have files in the filename pattern of,

this.is.the.name.of.my.file.mov


and I would like to remove dots (.) and replace them with spaces ( ) so the output would be,

this is the...