Re: bulk filename changes BASH sed solution...

[Erich Schroeder <erich@museum.state.il.us>]

If you are on a fedora/redhat system, there is an rpm called util-linux 
which has a command /usr/bin/rename. The sequence looks like:

[erich@groucho temp]$ touch pb040016.jpg.in.out
[erich@groucho temp]$ ls -l pb*
-rw-rw-r--  1 erich erich 0 Jan 20 14:45 pb040016.jpg.in.out
[erich@groucho temp]$ rename jpg.in.out jpg *.in.out
[erich@groucho temp]$ ls -l pb*
-rw-rw-r--  1 erich erich 0 Jan 20 14:45 pb040016.jpg

eks

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Ken Keefe wrote:

> This is the best way I know of doing it. Not that that necessarily means
> much... Anyway, here is the BASH script...
>
> #!/bin/sh
> for i in *.jpg.in.out
> do
> mv "$i" "`echo $i | sed 's/.in.out//'`"
> done
>
> Or, you can do that right at the command prompt on one line like so
> (given that you are using BASH):
>
> for i in *.jpg.in.out; do mv "$i" "`echo $i | sed 's/.in.out//'`"; done
>
> Good luck...
>
> Ken
>
>
>
> On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 17:34 -0600, Jason V Smith wrote:
>> Good evening,
>>
>> I'm stumped not sure where to look.  Here's what I want to do.  I have a
>> bunch of pictures that are named similar to this pb040016.jpg.in.out.
>> What I want is to rename the file to this pb040016.jpg.  But I have a
>> bunch of files like this.  I know this is probably pretty simple but I'm
>> not sure what command(s) could help.  My only stipulation, if at all
>> possible, is to not use perl/python/sed or awk.  But feel free to offer
>> up perl one-liners that would do this.  It will help further what little
>> (I emphasize little) perl knowledge that I have.
>>
>> Your help is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Jason
>
>
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