Re: [MLUG] Renaming a bunch of files

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Michael wrote:

> Why not just make a script to rename a single file and just pass all the
> files through find . -iname "*.mp3" --exec myrename {} \;??

Oh.  Something like that is a better idea.  We have to be careful of how
the filenames are fed into the script.  The spaces can do weird things.
Here's a script called 'myrename' that might do what you want:


--------------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/usr/bin/tcsh -f

set newname = `echo "$1" | awk -F: '{print $NF}'`
mv "$1" "$newname"
end
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It has to take an actual filename as input -- no wildcard characters!  It
also always puts the renamed file in the default directory, even if the
file was originally elsewhere.

I think it works, but I'll bet someone can improve on it.

Mike

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