[Nottingham] Batch file renaming

[Martin]

Michael Quaintance wrote:
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> want all have names like "01 - Beat It.mp3.128kbps". The files are 
> arranged in folders of the artist and album.
> 
> Because these files have been transferred from a Mac to a Windows 
> machine, there are some "interesting" characters in the file and folder 
> names. By interesting, I mean accented characters, spaces, exclamation 
> marks, attempts at protecting accented characters, etc.
> 
> Could someone suggest a way to rename all these files so as to strip the 
> trailing ".128kbps" and leave the rest of the filename and folder names 
> intact?

OK, first:

MAKE A FULL BACKUP OF EVERYTHING FIRST!


For take one, try:

cd to the top directory, and:

find . -name '*.128k' -print | while read n ; do mv -v "${n}"
"${n%.128k}" ; done


There's various GUI batch renamers. I don't know if they work
hierarchically.


BTW: When are you flying?

Any partying??!

Cheers,
Martin

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