renaming

[saint.duo]

I want to take a bunch of files in a folder that end in "Converted Recovered.bob" and remove that part.

So, if my files were:
foo1 Converted Recovered.bob
foo2 Converted Recovered.bob
foo3 Converted Recovered.bob

I want their names to change to:
foo1
foo2
foo3

anyone? merv, you seem to be Mr. Scripter sometimes.

[mervTormel]

you'll want to test this with excrutiating meticulocity...

% cat bin/zren

#!/bin/sh
#
#  string-rename - Script to rename with replaced strings
#
#  Example: To replace all "_" with " " do
#           string-rename "_" "\ " filename ...
#
#  tkchan@rescomp.berkeley.edu
#

case $# in
  0|1|2)
     echo "Usage: string-rename STRING_TARGET STRING_REPLACE FILENAME..."
     echo
     echo "Example: string-rename \"_\" \"\ \" my_file"
     echo "  will rename \"my_file\" to \"my file\""
     exit 1
     ;;
  *)
     PAT="s/$1/$2/g"
     shift
     while [ $# -gt 1 ]
     do
        shift
        NEWNAME=`echo $1 | sed -e "$PAT" -e "s/  / /g"`
        echo Renaming $1 to $NEWNAME
        mv "$1" "$NEWNAME"
     done
     ;;
esac
exit 0

% zren "Converted Recovered.bob" "" "foo1 Converted Recovered.bob" 
Renaming foo1 Converted Recovered.bob to foo1

# it appears to work here

[saint.duo]

holy smokes! Can't be done with one line using a mv command, I would gather.

thanks merv, I'll save that one into my archives.

[mervTormel]

it could be done in a one liner, but it would be hamstrung for larger jobs, ergo, the loop. this is a more general purpose script, hedging that you may want/need to do this in the future.

and it's self documented.

and i think it'll handle globbing.

[vickishome]

Try FileRenamer. I used it last week to rename about 500 files in 30 folders. Worked very well. Simple to use. Freeware too!

[saint.duo]

I would use that program, except for the fact that I needed a command line solution. This is part of the admin work for our Xserve *drool*, and Apple Remote Desktop doesn't work too well over my connection at home, due to my nasty uplink speed. (speaking of which, I need to call my ISP and get that fixed...)

[Tapp_Darden]

can you make it count?

like rename files

rararchive.part01.rar -> rararchive.r01
rararchive.part02.rar -> rararchive.r02
rararchive.part03.rar -> rararchive.r03
...

how would you do this?

[osxpez]

If you are using a ksh based shell (like zsh or bash) you could take advantage of parameter expansion:

for file in foo*.bob;do mv "$file" "${file%% *.bob}"; done

Or more specific if you have lots of other files in the directory:

for file in foo*bob;do mv "$file" "${file% Converted Recovered.bob}"; done

In ksh (and it's derivates) ${param %pattern} deletes pattern from the value of parameter . %% is the "greedy" version and would make the first pattern ( *.bob) fail if your files were named like:
foo 1 Converted Recovered.bob

[osxpez]

Tapp: I'm sure you could use a "counting" approach for that, but you could also again take advantage of parameter expansion:

for file in *part*.rar;do tmp="${file/part/r}"; echo mv "$file" "${tmp%.rar}"; done