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# 1  
Old 04-18-2010
Question Need help to mass rename files

Hi.

I've got 75 mp3s that have the word 'Émission' in their filename.

They are all in this format:

Émission bla1 bla1.mp3
Émission bla2 bla2.mp3
Émission bla3 bla3.mp3
etc...

I would just like to mass replace 'Émission' by 'Emission'; basically replace 'É' with 'E'. The rest of the filename should of course remain the same.

Thx
# 2  
Old 04-19-2010
Code:
$ touch "Émission bla1 bla1.mp3"
$ touch "Émission bla2 bla2.mp3"
$ touch "Émission bla3 bla3.mp3"
$ ls
Émission bla1 bla1.mp3	Émission bla2 bla2.mp3	Émission bla3 bla3.mp3
$ for i in *
do
mv "$i" "`echo $i | sed -e 's/É/E/g'`"
done
$ ls
Emission bla1 bla1.mp3	Emission bla2 bla2.mp3	Emission bla3 bla3.mp3
$

I suggest that you first _copy_ your Émission files into a separate directory and then run the script,
so that your other mp3's stay untouched.
If the renaming process worked, test your new files, if everything is okay, delete your old Émission files,
and move back your new files.

Enjoy!

Last edited by pseudocoder; 04-19-2010 at 05:08 PM.. Reason: added suggestion
# 3  
Old 04-19-2010
Alternatively, to replace the first character
Code:
for i in É* ; do 
  mv "$i" "E${i#?}"
done

To replace every character É with E (works in bash or ksh93)
Code:
for i in É* ; do 
  mv "$i" "${i//É/E}"
done

# 4  
Old 04-19-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by pseudocoder
Code:
$ touch "Émission bla1 bla1.mp3"
$ touch "Émission bla2 bla2.mp3"
$ touch "Émission bla3 bla3.mp3"
$ ls
Émission bla1 bla1.mp3    Émission bla2 bla2.mp3    Émission bla3 bla3.mp3
$ for i in *
do
mv "$i" "`echo $i | sed -e 's/É/E/g'`"
done
$ ls
Emission bla1 bla1.mp3    Emission bla2 bla2.mp3    Emission bla3 bla3.mp3
$

I suggest that you first _copy_ your Émission files into a separate directory and then run the script,
so that your other mp3's stay untouched.
If the renaming process worked, test your new files, if everything is okay, delete your old Émission files,
and move back your new files.

Enjoy!
Thanks a lot! It effin worked. Only 1 second to do its deed... Sh really owns all these <expletive removed> software Smilie

---------- Post updated at 10:30 PM ---------- Previous update was at 10:09 PM ----------

OK so I've got a second question:

I have another folder of mp3s where the filenames have the following format:

001-actualsongname1.mp3
002-actualsongname2.mp3
003-actualsongname3.mp3

So now I would just like to remove the '00*-' part of the filename and only keep the 'actualsongname*.mp3' part.

Any tips? Smilie

edit by bakunin: Please! We are neither freaks nor script kiddies, so kindly adapt your language. We are professionals and we would like to be talked to that way. You might get just stony silence instead of help otherwise. Thank you for your consideration.

Last edited by bakunin; 04-19-2010 at 11:44 PM..
# 5  
Old 04-19-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kingzy
001-actualsongname1.mp3
002-actualsongname2.mp3
003-actualsongname3.mp3

So now I would just like to remove the '00*-' part of the filename and only keep the 'actualsongname*.mp3' part.

Any tips? Smilie
The same way as the other replacement:

Code:
for file in [0-9][0-9][0-9]-* ; do 
  mv "$file" "${file#???-}"
done

I hope this helps.

bakunin
# 6  
Old 04-20-2010
Kingzy, you're welcome. Here's another solution for your second question:
Code:
$ mkdir testmp3
$ cd testmp3
$ touch 001-actualsongname1.mp3
$ touch 002-actualsongname2.mp3
$ touch 003-actualsongname3.mp3
$ ls
001-actualsongname1.mp3	002-actualsongname2.mp3	003-actualsongname3.mp3
$ 
$ for i in *
do
mv "$i" "`echo $i | cut -d "-" -f2`"
done
$
$ ls
actualsongname1.mp3	actualsongname2.mp3	actualsongname3.mp3
$

Again, run this in a directory, that contains only the 000-* files.
# 7  
Old 04-21-2010
Question Vanishing MP3s

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. They all worked, as far as the script itself is concerned, but I encountered one issue:

I've got like 6 folders (albums) from that same artist, with mp3s of the format I described (00*-actualsongname*.mp3).

Before running the script I make a backup folder with the mp3s I want to modify, where I'll run the script (as per pseudocoder's suggestion). When I compare the folders after running the script, I notice that there are fewer files in the backup folder than in the original one.

So there may be a chance that, in the filenames, after the '00*-' part, the rest of the filename is the same. Could it be the reason that some mp3s disappeared? I can't really know for sure as there are at least 150 mp3s in each original folder, which are sorted by filename i.e. '00*-'

Out of the 6 albums, there was only one where no mp3s disappeared.

Hope I was clear enough.
 
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