[NTLUG:Discuss] batch file rename

[Dennis Kaptain]

 too many sed's in that line. remove one of them
should be:
NEWNAME=`sed s/CCC....




El Martes, 9 de septiembre, 2014 11:17:47, Dennis Kaptain <dkaptain at yahoo.com.mx> escribió:
 

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>Looking more at the big picture, I don't see how you are renaming the files.
>Try something like this
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>for FILE in `ls -1 *.mp3`
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>NEWNAME=`sed sed s/CCC-\([0-9]+\)-\([0-9]+\)-\([0-9]+\).mp3/\3\1\2\.mp3/`
>mv $FILE $NEWNAME
>done
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>El Martes, 9 de septiembre, 2014 8:18:25, Robinson Tryon <bishop.robinson at gmail.com> escribió:
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>>On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Bobby Wrenn <bobby at wrennest.com> wrote:
>>> It's been a while since I have fiddled with regular expressions and I need a
>>> little help.
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>>> I have a single directory with many files with names in the format
>>> "CCC-01-10-2012.mp3". In need to rename each file into the format
>>> "20120110.mp3".
>>> I tried;
>>> ls *mp3 | sed s/CCC-\([0-9]+\)-\([0-9]+\)-\([0-9]+\).mp3/\3\1\2\.mp3/ | sh
>>> but that returns "not found" for each entry.
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>>> What am I missing?
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>>IIRC you need to escape the plus sign
 as \+, at least in the GNU sed.
>>Also, I'm not sure that piping the output to sh is going to have the
>>desired effect.
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>>Here are some useful examples/notes:
>>https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17137566/rename-multiple-files-with-sed
>>https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2372719/using-sed-to-mass-rename-files/2372739#2372739
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>>HTH,
>>--R
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>>-- 
>>Robinson Tryon
>>QA Engineer - The Document Foundation
>>LibreOffice Community Outreach Herald
>>qubit at libreoffice.org
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