Re: [MLUG] Renaming a bunch of files

[Stephen Bohm <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

WOO!!  I finally got it to work.. just a LOT of playing with the quotes..

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#!/usr/bin/bash1 -f
while read file; do
  mv "$file" "`echo $file | awk -F: '{print $NF}'`"
done < ../songlist
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where "songlist" is the output dump of "ls -1 > ../songlist"


Thanks for the help everyone!

Steve


> Sorry.  I was actually working on it before you sent your message and I
> have fixed it up.  It's still tcsh.  Even if you don't use tcsh, it's
> probably still on your system, and the script will still run.  Just make
> it an executable file and see if it works.
>
> When I first wrote it, it was just off the top of my head and I didn't
> have time to test it.  It took a while to fix it up because I was having
> problems dealing with the use of quotes to cope with the spaces and stuff
> in the filenames.  The following script works at least for the exact
> filenames you sent earlier.  It should work when (1) the current default
> directory has only files in it that you want to rename (no other files)
> and (2) the filenames aren't more bizarre than what you already showed me.
> I can't guarantee anything!  So far, this does work.
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/usr/bin/tcsh -f
>
> foreach file ( "`ls -1`" )
> set newname = `echo $file | awk -F: '{print $NF}'`
> mv "$file" "$newname"
> end
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> If you want to translate that to another shell, fine, but you probably
> have to change quite a few things.  Every shell has its ideosyncracies.
> I don't think tcsh is any better than some of the others, but I know it a
> little because I've been using it for a few years.  It would be
> interesting to see how other people would have worked this out.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike
>
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