Fedora :: Bulk Rename Files In A List Via Terminal?
Nov 12, 2009
I've been spinning my wheels for a bit on this one not getting any traction. I have a list of pictures that have a bad extension that I would like to rename with the good extension. Here's a snippet of the list that I'm looking at:
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Code:
/Volumes/MyFiles/Pictures/2009/02 - February/Qeirstyn Playing Inside/._IMG_3347.JPG
/Volumes/MyFiles/Pictures/2009/02 - February/Qeirstyn Playing Inside/._IMG_3349.JPG
/Volumes/MyFiles/Pictures/2009/02 - February/Qeirstyn Playing Inside/._IMG_3350.JPG
/Volumes/MyFiles/Pictures/2009/02 - February/Qeirstyn Playing Inside/._IMG_3354.JPG
Looking for a rename utility that I can start from the context menu. Would like to be able to highlight a bunch of dig-cam pix on my desktop, right click to the context menu and open a bunch rename utility.
Y want to rename a bunch of files and directories to remove the space on the names, easy enough right?
Code: for source in $(find ./); do target=$(echo "$source"|sed -e 's/ /_/g'); mv -f "$source" $target; done
Well, I thought that should have work but the problem is that $source comes up broken, when I run it with echo instead of mv I get the echo with broken names.
Code: In this case "$source"="This is the file I want to rename" $ echo "$source"
Is there a way, preferably in python or BASH, to rename files from a list? for instance, track1.mp3, track2.mp3 should be renamed to the names stored in a file listing song names. I have tried to loop a variable through directory listing and renamed them, only to find that filenames with spaces can't be assigned to a variable as a whole. To solve the problem above, I have tried the read command in BASH, which enables the program reading line by line from a list. However, It was failed to pipe the results from directory listing to the read command.
possible to rename a list of files in batch in order to maintain the last part of them, then purge a central section and then again maintain the extension?I.E.:
How would I rename all files with a leading decimal point recursivley? I some how got all my music files to have a decimal point.I tried the below and got a " sed argument to long".[CODE]find /media/MUSIC -type f -name "*.wma" | xargs -0 sed -i 's/.(.*)/1/'[CODE]
Another question, can i just use -type f with out -name ? I am sure that all the files got the decimal point added as the first character.
I have found KRename to be very useful for bulk find and renames; however, I'd like to do a find a copy, which KRename doesn't appear to do.
For example, I'd like to (case insensitively) search all subdirectories for files called "cover.jpg", "cover.gif", or "cover.png" and create a copy of these called "thumb.xxx", in the same subdirectory the original is found, with the same extension as the original.
I want to know how to get the details of all files in my system more than 20mb or some specific amount of file size in Ubuntu terminal by using commands.
I just downloaded a copy of the Old Testament onto my laptop from the Windows side of my desktop.Alas, all of the links are in lower case and all of the file names came across in upper.way to rename all of the files in a directory to be in lower case instead of upper?
I have a list of .jpg files from two cellphones that I would like to rename to the file creation date... but so far I can't seem to find a suitable script (or anything remotely close to what I need).
These are jpg's snapped on cellphone cameras, so no EXIF data exists.
Code: for x in *.mkv; do rename "$x" "${line_from_filenames.txt}.mkv"; done; ls -1 ~/kids/movies/*.mkv 00.20080903fckdlowp.mkv 01.20080911fckdl2fd.mkv 02.20080925fckdlgrs.mkv 03.20081026fckdlbh7.mkv 04.20081206fckdli90.mkv 05.20090214fckdmkni.mkv [Code]....
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I have a Netgear ReadyNAS NV in the basement, that I want to use to serve up video files over my network to a TV in the living room.
Now, I have a lot of files that HandBrake encoded and it gave the files an m4v suffix. Even when the files are in a codec that the TV can handle, it refuses to load them because of this suffix... so I want to rename them all.
This is fairly simple for files on a local filesystem. I can simply cd into the directory containing the files, and do something like the commands below.
Code: $ for a in `ls`; > do > stem=`echo ${a} | cut -f1 -d"."` ; > mv ${a} ${stem}.mpg ;
[Code]....
Although there are a few smb commands available (smbstatus, smbget, etc.), I've not found any commands like smbls or smbmv.
Are there any special commands or utilities around that can do the kind of thing I'm trying to do?
I am using my Ubuntu machine to serve as a media server and network storage. The problem I have is iTunes on my desktop managed to make 2 copies of every song on the machine so instead of the 30GB I have its up to almost 100gb. I was wondering if there was a way to write a script to go through and delete the duplicates. The duplicates are the same filename as the original except a 1 or 2 following. Wasn't looking forward to deleting 12,000 files by hand.
how to change (rename, delete) lines from boot list in grub 2, Ubuntu 10.04? For example, when I boot my pc, I have a boot list with options "Ubuntu 10.04", "memtest" and "Windows 7". I want to delete "memtest" line, as I don't need it, and rename "Windows 7" line to, for example, "Windows 117". How can I do that? Where I should look and edit? In old grub it was enough to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst, but in Ubuntu 10.04 there is no such file and other grub2-related files (like grub.cfg) do not contain this info to rename or delete lines. So, I can't figure out what to do.
I have bought an external usb hard drive on which I back up my three computers every once in a while.Space will quickly be used up.I can't find that little bit of research that I need yesterday.Here is what I would like to find:An application that eliminates doubles in identical files and renames files that have changed by appending the last saved date yyyymmdd to the file name.Does such an application already exist?
Until now i haven't had to dabble with bash scripts.
I have a program that reads in data files. These are named datafile01_R, datafile01_G, datafile01_B, they then increment, so datafile02_R etc i have about 600 of these. the program reads in 3 data sets at a time from each run, so files_01 r, g, and b.
The program then does its magic, and outputs about 40 different files, depending on the file, they gone to folders named R, G, B, psa, or tracking.
The program itself has configuration files to say where the files should gone when analyzed, there is also the config files that reads in the data sets.
At the moment i have to run one set of data, then go in and manually change the input file location, and run again. But, doing this, even though a different data set, the new set overwrites the old set in one of the output folders. So i need a way to increment the output filenames after they are written and before the program is run again with the new data set.
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Also, I want to perform some video streaming between two nodes to study the behavior of real time data transfer. Is thier any application to perform this?
# ls -1 *.mp3 Megadeth - Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good! - 01 - Last Rites-Loved To Death.mp3 Megadeth - Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good! - 02 - Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good.mp3 Megadeth - Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good! - 03 - Skull Beneath The Skin.mp3 [Code]....
i want to rename it to:
01 - Last Rites-Loved To Death.mp3 02 - Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good.mp3 03 - Skull Beneath The Skin.mp3 04 - These Boots.mp3 05 - Rattlehead.mp3 06 - Chosen Ones.mp3 07 - Looking Down The Cross.mp3 08 - Mechanix.mp3
here is my RnD so far:
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so it does show that i can run "mv" and reame the files the way i want. BUT...there are lots of spaces in each file, and hence when I append "|sh" to above command to have him actually rename the files, my "mv" command is failing. BTW, I tried exploring perl "rename" command, but I could not understand it's regex.
I am trying to get this script to work. The purpose is to download a list of modules from the slax.org the list consist of a list of module numbers. What I am trying to do is Download the file or the file name corresponding to the number in the list.the list is comma delimited. this is what I have done so far and I am a stand still.
#!/bin/sh # Wget script to retrieve modules from slax.org modules # # ----Begin of user defined values ----- # Path to wget
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I need help with renaming files and folders in one go. I have a folder called /opt/utility/pictures/ Inside that folder have sub-folders and files such as code...
