Re: Relabeling all audio files on a server

2010-06-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
Phil Meyer wrote: > On 05/30/2010 04:21 PM, Leonard Adjei wrote: >> I have a server which houses thousands of audio tracks and materials. >> Recently I started using a web application which seems to have a ew >> problems with the naming convention used by default. >> For example it has a problem wi

Re: Relabeling all audio files on a server

2010-06-02 Thread Phil Meyer
On 05/30/2010 04:21 PM, Leonard Adjei wrote: > I have a server which houses thousands of audio tracks and materials. > Recently I started using a web application which seems to have a ew > problems with the naming convention used by default. > For example it has a problem with apostrophe signs ('),

Re: Relabeling all audio files on a server

2010-06-02 Thread Dale J. Chatham
Not that incredibly difficult, but when I do it, if I have space, I create a tarball of the directories of files to rename. Then: find -type f | \ while read OLDFILE do NEWFILE=`convert_file $OLDFILE` if [ ! -f $NEWFILE ] then mv $OLDFILE $NEWFILE fi done create an appropriate

Re: Relabeling all audio files on a server

2010-06-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 13:27 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> 1 - any mass rename opens you to disaster > > One fly in the ointment might be renaming one file to the same name as > an already existing file. > Here there be tigers ;-) I did pull out the directory name to prevent renamin

Re: Relabeling all audio files on a server

2010-06-01 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 13:27 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > 1 - any mass rename opens you to disaster One fly in the ointment might be renaming one file to the same name as an already existing file. -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address

Re: Relabeling all audio files on a server

2010-05-31 Thread john wendel
On 05/31/2010 10:27 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Leonard Adjei wrote: >> I have a server which houses thousands of audio tracks and materials. >> Recently I started using a web application which seems to have a ew >> problems with the naming convention used by default. >> For example it has a problem

Re: Relabeling all audio files on a server

2010-05-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
Leonard Adjei wrote: > I have a server which houses thousands of audio tracks and materials. > Recently I started using a web application which seems to have a ew > problems with the naming convention used by default. > For example it has a problem with apostrophe signs ('), I want to be > able to

Re: Relabeling all audio files on a server

2010-05-30 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sunday 30 May 2010 07:47 PM, Mikkel wrote: > On 05/30/2010 05:21 PM, Leonard Adjei wrote: >> I have a server which houses thousands of audio tracks and materials. >> Recently I started using a web application which seems to have a ew >> problems with the naming convention used by default. >> For

Re: Relabeling all audio files on a server

2010-05-30 Thread Mikkel
On 05/30/2010 05:21 PM, Leonard Adjei wrote: > I have a server which houses thousands of audio tracks and materials. > Recently I started using a web application which seems to have a ew > problems with the naming convention used by default. > For example it has a problem with apostrophe signs ('),

Re: Relabeling all audio files on a server

2010-05-30 Thread Frank Elsner
On Sun, 30 May 2010 22:21:32 + Leonard Adjei wrote: > I have a server which houses thousands of audio tracks and materials. > Recently I started using a web application which seems to have a ew > problems with the naming convention used by default. > For example it has a problem with apostrophe

Relabeling all audio files on a server

2010-05-30 Thread Leonard Adjei
I have a server which houses thousands of audio tracks and materials. Recently I started using a web application which seems to have a ew problems with the naming convention used by default. For example it has a problem with apostrophe signs ('), I want to be able to create a script which goes to t