[Watford] Bulk Rename Files

[Steve Horsley]

Something like this might work:
find -iname 'out*'  -exec rename -v "s/^OUT???-????????-??????-//g" '{}' \;

Perehaps a bit slow, but since you've been trying for quite some time, I
guess that won't matter too much.

Steve

On 5 December 2012 08:36, Rob Jefferis <rob at letchmore.co.uk> wrote:

>  Morning all, apologies for the delay in getting back on this.
>
> Thanks very much for the replies.
>
> I managed to find a line that worked to rename the files as I wanted which
> is, rename -v "s/^OUT???-????????-??????-//g" *.gsm
>
>  The problem i have now is that running that on the actual folder gives
> me an Argument list too long error.
>
>  When i copy files between these folders i use the line  find -iname *
> -exec cp -v {} /temp/. \; so that i am essentially copying one file at a
> time.
>
>  I have been trying to combine my 2 examples to complete my bulk rename
> but so far without much success. Any help would be appreciated.
>
>  Thanks again
>
>  Rob
>
>
>
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> Sent: 28 November 2012 00:44
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> Subject: Re: [Watford] Bulk Rename Files
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:43:05PM +0000, Rob Jefferis wrote:
> > Hi guys, I have a load of files in a directory with file names similar
> to below
> >
> > OUT119-20120702-084956-1341215396.177198.gsm
> >
> > It is basically OUT(dialingextensionnumber)-DATE-TIME-UNIQUEID.gsm
> >
> > I would like to somehow bulk rename all the files in this folder to
> strip everything other than the uniqueid.gsm bit
> >
> > So in this case I want the file to end up called
> >
> > 1341215396.177198.gsm
> >
> >
> > Is there a quick way to do this?
>
> Using ksh
>
> for file in *.gsm
> do mv $file ${file#~(E:+(OUT+(\d)-+(\d)-+(\d)-))}
> done
>
> The syntax is a little strange.
>
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