On Tuesday 12 Aug 2003 5:05 am, Todd Slater wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 12:41:05AM +0100, Richard Urwin wrote: > > On Monday 11 Aug 2003 9:08 pm, Todd Slater wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:28:59PM -0500, fifner the dragon wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I just started to rip my complete cd collection to ogg using > > > > Grip. The ogg files are named by default like: > > > > "11_sun_in_your_face.ogg" The encode file format is set to > > > > "~/mp3/%A/%d/%t_%n.ogg" > > > > > > > > I want capital letters in the beginning of every word and > > > > spaces instead of underlines between the words. > > > > > > > > How shoud I set the encode file format to get the following > > > > file name: "11_Sun In Your Face.ogg" > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > > > > > Fifner > > > > > > This is Linux, you'll have to do that manually to each file you > > > encode. > > > > > > Or, you can use another app like easytag. > > > > > > But seriously now folks, there should be an option in options > > > somewhere that says "replace spaces with underscores". I'd say if > > > you uncheck that you should be set except for the capital > > > letters. My first instinct is "man tr" on that one. > > > > tr only matches single characters, it could uppercase the whole > > name, > > Like I always say, never trust your first instinct ;) > > > but it isn't up to capitalising each word. The required command is > > something like: > > for $i in *.ogg do > > mv $i `echo $i|sed "s/\([_ ]\)\([a-z]\)/\1\u\2/g"` > > done > > The sed command is correct, but I get syntax errors on the 'for', > > maybe someone can jump in and correct me. > > If the filename has spaces in it you need to quote $i in the mv > command, i.e. 'mv "$i" ...'.
True. but I couldn't get it to get that far. It complains that "mv" is unexpected. Something to do with the "for" syntax that I couldn't find the right mystical incantation for. > If you're interested, here's a comp.unix.shell search on change case: > > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=change+case >&meta=group%3Dcomp.unix.shell > > There I found this script that works for converting to initial caps: > > #!/bin/sed -f > s/$/aAbBcCdDeEfFgGhHiIjJkKlLmMnNoOpPqQrRsStTuUvVwWxXyYzZ/ > s/^\([a-z]\)\(.*\1\)\(.\)/\3\2\3/ > > :more > > s/\([ ]\)\([a-z]\)\(.*\2\)\(.\)/\1\4\3\4/ > t more > s/aA[b-zB-Z]*$// > That is a general purpose script for handling text. In this case we can be simpler and still get the job done. > (the stuff in the first pair of brackets after :more is a space and > a tab.) > However, it will not work with a file named "11_fun in the sun.ogg" > as "11_fun" counts as a word. Add a _ to the space and tab and it would work. > Todd -- Richard Urwin
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