On 14/01/2026 21:38, Peter Merchant wrote:
Hi, I have just copied a number of discs of music files to one folder
and the individual files start with 01 - Artistname. How do I do a
bulk rename to remove the 01-, 02-, etc?
Hi, Peter,
I haven't had to do this for some time, but I had a similar task some
years ago when I had to remove the ' and " chars in filenames because
the dumb MP3 Player in my car barfed at them I used krename, which
makes the above exercise really easy.
Your requirement is a little more complicated because you have a moving
target (eg the ascending numbers), but I'm sure that it is not difficult
if a grep expression is included in the target string.
As I'm sure someone else will point out, the whole thing can be done in
the shell, but I've never been that comfortable with grep, so I'll leave
that to someone else.
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