[Nottingham] Batch file renaming
Michael Erskine
msemtd at googlemail.com
Sun Jul 20 19:08:18 BST 2008
> find musicdirroot/. -type d -exec rename ".128kbps" "" *.128kbps \;
>
> (Mmmm... Or would the bash globbing muck that up?)
Probably, better man rename - since this is in effect executing a
given Perl expression with $_ for each globbed argument, I tend to use
things like...
rename 's/this/that/g' *.whatever
... or ...
rename 'tr/[A-Z]/[a-z]/' *.something
... or ...
rename 'ucfirst' *.things
Regards,
Michael Erskine.
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