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Sunday, October 2, 2005
Given what a pain in the ass iTunes can be when working with mp3 files not of its own making, I've had to rename certain files with a prefix so I can manage them better. Here's a script to rename files with a given prefix. Invoked so:
> prerename.sh
Example:
>prerename.sh "*.mp3" "CD-1-"
Be sure to keep the arguments inside double quotes so the renaming can handle spaces, otherwise the shell will expand them into arguments for you. Oops.#!/bin/bash
# Program: prerename.sh
# Author: Spastic Mutant mutant@spasticmutant.com
#
# Rename a bunch of files with the given prefix.
# e.g. > ./testrename "fo*" "myprefix"
# renames foo\ 5 to myprefixfoo\ 5 .
#prefix=$2
for i in $1 ;
do
echo "starting with: " $i
mfile=$(echo $i | sed 's/\.\///')
echo $mfile
echo "finalname:" $prefix$mfile
mv "$mfile" "$prefix$mfile"done
Posted by SpasticMutant @ 12:34 PM PST [Link]
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