Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 23:35:08 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: "J.S." <johann@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Filename tool? Message-ID: <20020114213507.GG31045@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20020114205116.3183e89a.johann@broadpark.no>
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On 2002-01-14 20:51:15, J.S. wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have large collection of files within many branches of filetypes, and
> before they enter my 'main' collection I have to manually change the
> filenames so that I am satisfied with the way they are.
>
> E.g.:
>
> Artist_-_Dis'z_Deh_Name_Of_My_Song_(My_Remix)-GROUP.mp3
>
> I rename to:
>
> artist-disz_deh_name_of_my_song-my_remix-group.mp3
>
> Is that 100% POSIX compliant or what? =)
>
> Anyway, I was wondering if there existed a tool which can organize both
> files and directories the same way I do. Perhaps even better?
I recently got a cdrom in my snail mail with several dozens of mp3
collections. The files were all in that style so popular among the
Windows world, with spaces between words, parentheses, and a ton of
other characters that would make my life more difficult.
Your friend is your FreeBSD base-system. It has all the tools you
need to make scripts like:
#!/bin/sh
for fname in `find . -depth` ;do
# strip all non alpha/digit/space/./-/_ characters
fa="`echo \"${fname}\" | sed -e 's/[^ [:alpha:][:digit:].-_]//g'`"
# replace spaces with _
fb="`echo \"${fa}\" | sed -e 's/[[:space:]][[:space:]]/_/g'`"
# lowercase all
fc="`echo \"${fb}\" | tr A-Z a-z`"
# ...
# ... do what other stuff you want with the filename
# ...
mv "${fname}" "${fc}"
done
Of course, while you're testing a script like the one above, you might
want to use "echo mv" instead of "mv". This way you can verify that
the mv(1) command will rename the file to a name that you like, and
then run the same script without "echo" to actually do the rename.
--
Giorgos Keramidas . . . . . . . . . keramida@{ceid.upatras.gr,freebsd.org}
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