On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, James Miller wrote: > Flemming's script did the job of getting wierd characters out of file > names for me, so that part of dealing with these recordings is nicely > resolved. Just run the comand in the dir where the files are, and in > about a second you have renamed 170 files. Now, if cat'ing them together > were even 1/10th as efficient. I'm discovering that this process really > needs to be automated, too. Maybe someone could offer advice on how to do > this? > > Currently, I surf to the dir where the 170 files are, issue "cat" > followied by part of the beginning of a file's name and hit <tab>, which > gives me about 2/3's of the rest of the name. I then have to start looking > at names of files more closely in another window, look at their time > signatures (the most pertinent piece of info, really), choose the oldest > one, enter some letter from it where cat left off, and hit <tab> again to > get the complete name of the first file. Then, I copy that file's name and > paste it after >~/MyMusic/classical/ and strip off the more particluarized > parts so I have a more generic name for my full-piece file, then hit > enter. At that point, I have the beginning of the cat'd together piece, > and I follow a similar procedure--but using >>~/MyMusic/classical--to cat > the rest of the components of the piece together into one. > > To give a more complete picture using fake names, I do something like > this: > > cat Snooty-Composer1-highflownsymphony-inGmajor-Op.89674-movement1.mp3 > >~/MyMusic/classical/Snooty-Composer1-highflownsymphony-inGmajor-Op.89674.mp3 > > cat Snooty-Composer1-highflownsymphony-inGmajor-Op.89674-movement2.mp3 > >>~/MyMusic/classical/Snooty-Composer1-highflownsymphony-inGmajor-Op.89674.mp3 > > cat Snooty-Composer1-highflownsymphony-inGmajor-Op.89674-movement3.mp3 > >>~/MyMusic/classical/Snooty-Composer1-highflownsymphony-inGmajor-Op.89674.mp3
If I read your filenames correctly, the only thing that seperates them are the movement numbers ? I am assuming that `[0-9]' would work than for all your files this way ??? ~: ls Snooty-Composer1-highflownsymphony-inGmajor-Op.89674-movement[0-9].mp3 Snooty-Composer1-highflownsymphony-inGmajor-Op.89674-movement1.mp3 Snooty-Composer1-highflownsymphony-inGmajor-Op.89674-movement2.mp3 Snooty-Composer1-highflownsymphony-inGmajor-Op.89674-movement3.mp3 `ls' can take a number of options, underwich `sort' entrys by time . ~: ls -lt -c Snooty-Composer1-highflownsymphony-inGmajor-Op.89674-movement[0-9].mp3 Now extract the targetname you want with `sed` [see bottom of email] and fall into a loop dd'ing with notrunc or contactenating `like you did above' all files to your target file. done > I then have the entire piece in a single file called > Snooty-Composer1-highflownsymphony-inGmajor-Op.89674.mp3. Incidentally, > there is alot more variation in the actual names than in these examples. > For example, not very many have the movements numbered (the numeral right > before .mp3). Rather, the movements are called by their more generic > titles like "Adagio," "Andante," and so forth. So, not much consistency > in that part of the name. > > It seems like there should be a less labor-intensive way of doing this, > and, it seems to me, the salient factor in such a scheme is the time of > file creation rather than file name. Unix and GNU/Linux type systems do not store the file creation time as static information. There are `three sorts of time` that are stored with each file: C time - changed time info of the corresponding inode, M time - last modified time, A time - last access time These can be changed by other programs. For example `touch' . So be careful how you implement this and how you group corrosponding files by time . Personally I would have renamed each file correctly according to the task I wanted to preform right from the start, thus to include the last modified UTC time in the filename. That way you can list each file belonging to a certain group `sort -n' them by time and concat them as appropiate. > Each file is written to the HD in the > order it finishes playing from the stream I am recording, so that's really > probably the easiest and surest way to join them. All movments of a given > piece are all going to have been written to disk within, say, 1/2 hr of > the beginning of the piece. > > Problem is, I'm sort of at a loss for ideas about how this could be done. > Is there a way to feed cat file creation time rather than file name? No . B.t.w. you could also use `dd', with the `notrunc' parameter . That is more optimized for this task. > It's > not really so important that the name of the file I am cat'ing be > preserved, so much as that the file being cat'ed to have an informative > name. So, I'm casting about for ways of automating this process of joining > movements together into the full pieces of which the movements are a part. > Suggestions? This will.... ~: echo 'Snooty-Composer1-highflownsymphony-inGmajor-Op.89674-movement1.mp3' | \ sed 's/^\(.*\)-movement\([0-9]*\).mp3$/\1_FULL.mp3/g' result in: Snooty-Composer1-highflownsymphony-inGmajor-Op.89674_FULL.mp3 Note the nonlinebreak after the pipe is done because of the linewidth in e-mail.. > Thanks, James The GLUE at the GNU/Linux , Unix type command-line provides was already there long before. Pls. Have a look at the `UNIX philosophy' since I think it will give some more insight in the background of these tasks you are trying to accomplish. http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&lr=&q=unix+philosophy&btnG=Search Success, J. -- Don't worry Ma'am. We're university students, - we know what we're doing. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
