Re: automatic file renaming?
- From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 11:41:47 +0100
__/ [ Kat ] on Sunday 14 May 2006 23:43 \__
Hello everyone on this newsgroup,
I'd like to know if it's possible to automatically rename a whole lot of
files (namely mp3 files), is there a console command that would take
care of it?
Here's an example of what I'm aiming at. I have lots of long file names
like this one:
01 - Artist Name - A Veeeeery Long Album Title - Song Title.mp3
I'd like to shorten them to:
01 - Song Title.mp3
Now don't tell me I have to rename 1429 mp3 files manually...
Any help appreciated! Thanks.
You'll need to parse filenames, choose a new name for them and then rename
them. You might be better off asking in the Perl newsgroup. If you dump all
file to some playlist, e.g. ~/playlist.txt which contains newline-sparated
filenames, then do something like
,----[ Code ]
| #!/usr/bin/perl -w
| open(IFP,"/home/YOU/playlist.txt") or die
| "could not open file: $!";
| $line=<IFP>;
| (undef,undef,$file)=split(/-/-$line);
|
| # some Perly file moving operation
|
| close(IFP);
`----
Perhaps this can serve as a rudimentary starting point.
Hope it helps,
Roy
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