[expert] renaming large number of files.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How can I rename large number of files? They follow a standard and and numbered sequencially. The idea is to give a meaningful name to them. TIA []s Ricardo Castanho - -- delivery NOT reliable => [EMAIL PROTECTED] == Linux user # 102240 => Machine # 96125 => Seti@home user == -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Para mais informações veja http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjxSxz0ACgkQqJymTCNNyXFdEwCgypdsMsGiCuXdptff75n6nzo2 SHoAoLhwVg7VsPzwAdMjafcqWId1h18G =bBiP -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] renaming large number of files.
So sprach »Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas« am 2002-01-26 um 13:11:50 -0200 : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 That's not needed, IMO. > > How can I rename large number of files? > > They follow a standard and and numbered sequencially. > > The idea is to give a meaningful name to them. mmv can do that. However, I more often end up hacking together a small regexp, which I then use kinda like this: files: a001.png a231.png ija231.bmp Now I'd want to put a _ between the letters and the numbers and also want to rename them all to .gif for f in * ; do new_name=$(echo $f | perl -p -e 's|(\w+?)(\d+)\..*|$1_$2.gif|') # Or maybe: # new_name=$(echo $f | perl -p -e 's|([:alpha:]+)(\d+)\..*|$1_$2.gif|') echo $new_name done regexp's are cool ;) Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.iso-top.de | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] iso-top.de - Die günstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 11 days 21 hours 24 minutes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] renaming large number of files.
Wow! So complex! How about "rename a a_ *" -JMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Alexander Skwar Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 2:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] renaming large number of files. So sprach >Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas< am 2002-01-26 um 13:11:50 -0200 : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 That's not needed, IMO. > > How can I rename large number of files? > > They follow a standard and and numbered sequencially. > > The idea is to give a meaningful name to them. mmv can do that. However, I more often end up hacking together a small regexp, which I then use kinda like this: files: a001.png a231.png ija231.bmp Now I'd want to put a _ between the letters and the numbers and also want to rename them all to .gif for f in * ; do new_name=$(echo $f | perl -p -e 's|(\w+?)(\d+)\..*|$1_$2.gif|') # Or maybe: # new_name=$(echo $f | perl -p -e 's|([:alpha:]+)(\d+)\..*|$1_$2.gif|') echo $new_name done regexp's are cool ;) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] renaming large number of files.
At 03:15 PM 1/26/2002 -0500, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: >Wow! > >So complex! > >How about > >"rename a a_ *" Jose, such parsimony, I love it. J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT System Administrator -Art is the illusion of spontaneity- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] renaming large number of files.
So sprach »Jose M. Sanchez« am 2002-01-26 um 15:15:01 -0500 : > Wow! > > So complex! > > How about > > "rename a a_ *" Yep, it was an easy example which rename can handle rather well. But more complex examples will very fast turn down rename. And further, in my example you can do all sorts of stuff with the $new_name besides renaming the files. Granted, Ricardo only asked for renaming the files, but still... ;) Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.iso-top.de | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] iso-top.de - Die günstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 12 days 1 hour 23 minutes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] renaming large number of files.
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Alexander Skwar wrote: Wow! Nothing like a question to the experts!! With such volume of **good* commands ( and simple!) sometimes... it's hard to get the *best* one! task done! Thank you all! Gotta find my book on bash scripting, perl, sed and 'et cetera'! (mainly) Ricardo Castanho >So sprach »Jose M. Sanchez« am 2002-01-26 um 15:15:01 -0500 : >> Wow! >> >> So complex! >> >> How about >> >> "rename a a_ *" > >Yep, it was an easy example which rename can handle rather well. But >more complex examples will very fast turn down rename. And further, in >my example you can do all sorts of stuff with the $new_name besides >renaming the files. Granted, Ricardo only asked for renaming the files, >but still... ;) > >Alexander Skwar > -- delivery NOT reliable => [EMAIL PROTECTED] == Linux user # 102240 => Machine # 96125 => Seti@home user == Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] renaming large number of files.
Hello Ricardo, I was actually considering writing a bash script of this very feature today! the problem is that you cant do "mv dcp_0*.jpg pics-*.jpg" or the like in linux. DOS allows for "ren dcp_0*.jpg pics-*.jpg" but they have to be the same number or characters... I will check this out now. It should not be too hard to do... MY LAST WORDS... JG Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > How can I rename large number of files? > > They follow a standard and and numbered sequencially. > > The idea is to give a meaningful name to them. > > TIA > > []s Ricardo Castanho Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] renaming large number of files.
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, J. Grant wrote: Hi, JG, Thanks for the attention! I've 'managed' it, for the time being with 'rename' but, it does not covers all the details, i.e., on my case after long, long hours of recording audio cassettes, mastering, signal processing and etc... I've been using gramofile for this work and it does have 'default' name for the recording and the final audio sample. At the beginning, it was not a big deal but, after reaching +15Gb of *.wav samples to manage and burn CD'swow then it was a BIG trouble! Thankfully, the guys from the list gave the 'rename' hint and it's working for now. But please let me know of any other solution. The only question is how to find out so many 'commands' on Linux! After the suggestion and seeing the results I went for some explanation and find none, except for the man pages! Does any body know how to find a ' list ' of resources from Linux? Tks, Ricardo Castanho >Hello Ricardo, >I was actually considering writing a bash script of this very feature today! >the problem is that you cant do "mv dcp_0*.jpg pics-*.jpg" or the like >in linux. DOS allows for "ren dcp_0*.jpg pics-*.jpg" but they have to be >the same number or characters... >I will check this out now. It should not be too hard to do... MY LAST >WORDS... >JG >Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> How can I rename large number of files? >> They follow a standard and and numbered sequencially. >> The idea is to give a meaningful name to them. >> TIA -- delivery NOT reliable => [EMAIL PROTECTED] == Linux user # 102240 => Machine # 96125 => Seti@home user == Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] renaming large number of files.
I just checked, and rename does not seem to support renaming files such as pic1, pic2 -> pic1.jpg pic2.jpg etc? or does it? it seems to require something to swap, the from option but if I want to add at the end I can not. I think there are better ways to do this using a bash script and mv, i am sure others have done this already. JG Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, J. Grant wrote: > > Hi, JG, > > Thanks for the attention! > > I've 'managed' it, for the time being with 'rename' but, it does not > covers all the details, i.e., on my case after long, long hours of > recording audio cassettes, mastering, signal processing and etc... > I've been using gramofile for this work and it does have 'default' name > for the recording and the final audio sample. At the beginning, it was not > a big deal but, after reaching +15Gb of *.wav samples to manage and burn > CD'swow then it was a BIG trouble! > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] renaming large number of files.
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, J. Grant wrote: Hi, You want to add the extension right? I can't give it a try now but I renamed 'processed0001.wav' to 'nice-name0001.wav' with no problem! the first example sent to me was: rename a a_ * And it worked all right, then I thought why the '_' and worked again! So you got to have something to trade for ;-) On your case you have only pic but no extension to exchange for .jpg! If you find a solution, please tell us! Ricardo Castanho >I just checked, and rename does not seem to support renaming files such >as pic1, pic2 -> pic1.jpg pic2.jpg etc? or does it? > >it seems to require something to swap, the from option but if I want to >add at the end I can not. > >I think there are better ways to do this using a bash script and mv, i >am sure others have done this already. > >JG > >Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: > >> On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, J. Grant wrote: >> >> Hi, JG, >> >> Thanks for the attention! >> >> I've 'managed' it, for the time being with 'rename' but, it does not >> covers all the details, i.e., on my case after long, long hours of >> recording audio cassettes, mastering, signal processing and etc... >> I've been using gramofile for this work and it does have 'default' name >> for the recording and the final audio sample. At the beginning, it was not >> a big deal but, after reaching +15Gb of *.wav samples to manage and burn >> CD'swow then it was a BIG trouble! >> > > > > -- delivery NOT reliable => [EMAIL PROTECTED] == Linux user # 102240 => Machine # 96125 => Seti@home user == Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] renaming large number of files.
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 04:35:52 -0200 (BRST) "Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does any body know how to find a ' list ' of resources from Linux? Press the TAB key at a prompt, then answer "y"... :^) Pierre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] renaming large number of files.
So sprach »J. Grant« am 2002-01-28 um 15:44:32 +0900 : > I just checked, and rename does not seem to support renaming files such > as pic1, pic2 -> pic1.jpg pic2.jpg etc? or does it? > > it seems to require something to swap, the from option but if I want to > add at the end I can not. > > I think there are better ways to do this using a bash script and mv, i > am sure others have done this already. Well, I don't use rename, so I'd suggest to have a look at my example with the regexp again. But in the case of pic1, pic2 -> pic1.jpg, pic2.jpg it's even simpler: for f in *; do mv $f $f.jpg done You can type this exactly like above on the shell prompt. Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.iso-top.de | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] iso-top.de - Die günstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 14 days 9 hours 34 minutes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] renaming large number of files.
Read at http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html and find all about linux resources included in bash. > On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 04:35:52 -0200 (BRST) > "Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does any body know how to find a ' list ' of resources from Linux? -- --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de Física Biológica Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] renaming large number of files.
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: That was not what I meant but, I guess it will do it! ;-) [I used to love DOS batch files!] As I have heard and felt Linux contains a "miriade"/"pletora" of commands and I would like to find sources/resources for a better understanding of this system... and what is quite bad... not all of them have a man page (or info page) to help us! (as a volunteer translator/reviewer at ldp-br [man pages] I could feel that!). But then again...it's hard to find a 'command' you've never heard of! But I'd better take your suggestion as a smooth (?) start! tks []s Ricardo Castanho >Read at > >http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html > >and find all about linux resources included in bash. > >> On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 04:35:52 -0200 (BRST) >> "Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Does any body know how to find a ' list ' of resources from Linux? > > > -- delivery NOT reliable => [EMAIL PROTECTED] == Linux user # 102240 => Machine # 96125 => Seti@home user == Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] renaming large number of files.
"Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas" wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: > > That was not what I meant but, I guess it will do it! ;-) > [I used to love DOS batch files!] > > As I have heard and felt Linux contains a "miriade"/"pletora" of commands > and I would like to find sources/resources for a better understanding of > this system... and what is quite bad... not all of them have a man page > (or info page) to help us! (as a volunteer translator/reviewer at ldp-br > [man pages] I could feel that!). > > But then again...it's hard to find a 'command' you've never heard of! > > But I'd better take your suggestion as a smooth (?) start! > > tks > > []s Ricardo Castanho You may have read this, and since you are coming from from the DOS world, the DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO may prove helpful. Larry > >Read at > >http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html > > > >and find all about linux resources included in bash. > > > >> On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 04:35:52 -0200 (BRST) > >> "Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] renaming large number of files.
This is a resend from a reply to a thread titled "sed or awk or ?"
There are few ways to do this, but here is one. It is not particularly
elegant; just a brute force way of doing it.
But it does have the advantage of letting you test whether and how it will
work by uncommenting the "print" statement and commenting out the "system".
You can see if running the program does what you really want it to do and
make changes before you go mucking about with the real mv command.
In this case person asking for help wanted to rename files named
"process." to "adi.".
Trying this out will introduce you to gawk and regular expressions. Really
cool stuff.
I'm pretty sure you could do this directly in bash, but I'm not particularly
strong there.
/Pen
--
Create the following awk file named, say, "doit.awk" using your favorite
editor. Do this in, say, your home directory.
{
if (/^processed/)
{
new = $1
gsub(/^processed/, "adi", new)
syscmd = "mv " $1 " " $new
# print syscmd
system(syscmd)
}
}
In the directory that you want to change the filenames, execute the command
ls -1 > myfiles
Now do the following command
gawk -f ~/doit.awk myfiles
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Re: [expert] renaming large number of files.
OK Try th comman apropos at the prompt, it gives you a list of man pages to look through that contain reference to parameters that you give the command ie > apropos bash Gives a huge list!! Hope this helps si -Original Message- From: Larry Sword <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 08:48:08 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] renaming large number of files. > "Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas" wrote: > > > > On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: > > > > That was not what I meant but, I guess it will do it! ;-) > > [I used to love DOS batch files!] > > > > As I have heard and felt Linux contains a "miriade"/"pletora" of commands > > and I would like to find sources/resources for a better understanding of > > this system... and what is quite bad... not all of them have a man page > > (or info page) to help us! (as a volunteer translator/reviewer at ldp-br > > [man pages] I could feel that!). > > > > But then again...it's hard to find a 'command' you've never heard of! > > > > But I'd better take your suggestion as a smooth (?) start! > > > > tks > > > > []s Ricardo Castanho > > You may have read this, and since you are coming from from the DOS > world, the DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO may prove helpful. > > Larry > > > > >Read at > > >http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html > > > > > >and find all about linux resources included in bash. > > > > > >> On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 04:35:52 -0200 (BRST) > > >> "Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -- ___ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Win a ski trip! http://www.nowcode.com/register.asp?affiliate=1net2phone3a Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
