mass-renamer tool

[Thomas Stivers]

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On 02/02/04  9:05 AM -0600, Raul A. Gallegos wrote:
> Hi gang.  Anyone got any scripts or know of where I can find some tools 
> to do some mass-renaming?  For example, I have lots of audio files which 
> are named:
> 
> 12-song-title.ogg
> 
> And I'd like to mass rename them to:
> 
> Artist_-_songtitle.ogg
> 
> Or something to that affect.  I've triewd writing my own script but keep 
> running into problems with the spaces in the files because wsith the mv 
> command they need to be escaped.  It's not as easy as poutting '' around 
> them.
> 
> Any ideas or suggestions?

In the perl package for debian I have the rename tool which IMHO is
convenient for this. If yoi have used regular expressions much it'll
make sense to you. Here is an example

rename 's/\d+-(.*)\.ogg/artist_-_$2.ogg/' *.ogg

This will replace files like 01-Some Song.ogg with artist_-_Some
Song.ogg. You may want to turn all spaces into underscores or visa versa
also.

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Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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