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# 8  
Old 12-28-2013
we can do this

Code:
echo $(echo "VFX_Official_Trailer_(HD)__Shhh__-_by_Freddy_Chavez_Olmos_&_Shervin_Shoghian-[YT-f22][Ht2aZLf8q_8].mp4" | rev | awk -F. '{print $NF}' | cut -c 23- | rev).mp4

# 9  
Old 12-30-2013
How about this ?
Code:
 echo "VFX_Official_Trailer_(HD)__Shhh__-_by_Freddy_Chavez_Olmos_&_Shervin_Shoghian-[YT-f22][Ht2aZLf8q_8].mp4" | tr -c -s "[[:alnum:]]" "-"  | awk '{a=substr($0,length($0)-3,3);print substr($0,1,length($0)-27)"."a}'

# 10  
Old 12-30-2013
Code:
# echo $mp4
VFX_Official_Trailer_(HD)__Shhh__-_by_Freddy_Chavez_Olmos_&_Shervin_Shoghian-[YT-f22][Ht2aZLf8q_8].mp4

# echo "$mp4"| ruby -e 's=gets; puts s.gsub(/[&-]+/,"_").gsub(/_+/,"-").split("-")[0..-4].join("-") + ".mp4" '
VFX-Official-Trailer-(HD)-Shhh-by-Freddy-Chavez-Olmos-Shervin-Shoghian.mp4

# 11  
Old 02-08-2014
how can i remove none English letters from renamed file name
# 12  
Old 02-08-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by ateya
how can i remove none English letters from renamed file name
Is this related to the initial problem introduced in this thread? (If not, please start a new thread with a title related to what you are trying to do and provide a better description along with examples of the file name transformations you want to perform.)

What do you mean by "remove none English letters"? Are you saying that you want to remove everything from a file's name except the 52 uppercase and lowercase letters available in the C Locale? Do you mean that you want to change a filename like VFX_Official_Trailer_(HD)__Shhh__-_by_Freddy_Chavez_Olmos_&_Shervin_Shoghian-[YT-f22][Ht2aZLf8q_8].mp4 into VFXOfficialTrailerHDShhhbyFreddyChavezOlmosShervinShoghianYTfHtaZLfqmp
# 13  
Old 02-23-2014
sometimes the video name contains no English letters (non English language)
like
korian
Japaneses
arabic
# 14  
Old 02-23-2014
So, if you have a filename like <arabic string>-[YT-f23][Ht3aZLf9q_7].mp4, you want the entire filename to be turned into .mp4? Assuming this isn't what you want, please give us clear directions of the changes you want made to the filenames you're processing (similar to what I provided in message #4 in this thread with your new requirements added) and show us examples of what you do want to happen.
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