General :: Renaming Multiple Files Caused By Dropbox

Jul 20, 2011

Recently I installed Dropbox on a server to do file synchronization and it added " (Case Conflict 1)" to a whole bunch of my files! I realize now that it was caused by case insensitivity but I'm still left with hundreds of files that are in this renamed state. Is there a script in Linux that would allow me to recursively go through the directories and strip out this string?

i.e.
a (Case Conflict 1).jpg --> a.jpg
/myfolder/abc (Case Conflict 1).doc --> /myfolder/abc.doc
/myfolder/subfolder/mydoc (Case Conflict 1).pdf --> /myfolder/subfolder/mydoc.pdf

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General :: Copying And Renaming Multiple Files In Working Dir

Apr 8, 2010

How can I copy multiple files, each with a slightly different name from the SOURCE in the same directory?

Example: '/home/junk' contains A.txt, B.txt

I want to copy /home/junk/A.txt to /home/junk/A1.txt and /home/junk/B.txt to /home/junk/B1.txt using a single command.

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Feb 21, 2010

I have some random files in a folder. I want to rename all of the files in a batch process. I have a text file that contains the Currentname of all the files in the folder, as well as a text file with all of the Newname of files in the folder. I want to replace Currentnames with Newnames.

For example, here are the names of the files in the folder:
1.mp4
2.mp4
3.mp4

I have a text file with the Currentname of all the files in the folder:
1.mp4
2.mp4
3.mp4

I have a text file with the proper Newname of the file:
a.mp4
b.mp4
c.mp4

I want to rename Currentname with Newname in the folder. So when I go to the folder the Newname of the files are:
a.mp4
b.mp4
c.mp4

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Jun 21, 2011

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Mar 6, 2011

I have this cool bash script that I worked hard on. But it broke down when it can across files that had non-English characters. Another small problem was getting it to descend into a directory. If it renamed a directory it would not descend into that dir to rename the other files. I would have to run the script twice on the same directory.

Here is the script:
Code:
find -type d -o -regextype egrep -iregex '(.*.ogg|.*.mp3|.*.wav)' | while read s
do
rename -v 'y/A-Z/a-z/' "$s"
done
find -type d -o -regextype egrep -iregex '(.*.ogg|.*.mp3|.*.wav)' | while read n
do
rename -v 's/ /_/g' "$n"
done
A French name like this:

Code:
Chateau De Sable (imagine accents above the letter a)
became this:

Code:
ch303242tea_de_sable
This is not what I wanted.

Why would the script not descend into a directory after it was renamed?

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Feb 1, 2009

I am trying to rename multiple files in a directory and add the Date/Time stamp to the file name.

Example:
file1.txt
file2.txt
file3.txt

Renamed to
2009_02_01_21.txt
2009_02_02_21.txt
2009_02_03_21.txt

I am able to accomplish this using this command:
mv file1.txt "`date +%Y_%m%d_%H`".txt

But I want to automate this task, I have many files to process and I dont want to do them one by one.

I already tried this but it does not work
mv *.txt "`date +%Y_%m%d_%H`".txt

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Jun 8, 2010

What's the command for renaming files? I thought it was "mv"--I typed "info" and read

Quote:

* mv: (coreutils)mv invocation. Rename files. So, desiring to give a .JPG extension to a jpeg file that had no extension (because I dug it out of my Firefox cache), I typed

Quote:

mv '/home/josh/Desktop/Natalie pictures/DEC8FFA5d01' *.jpg

That didn't rename the file; it made the file disappear from its folder. What did I do wrong?

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May 2, 2011

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Dec 11, 2010

I run a script which generated about 10k files in a directory. I just discovered that there is a bug in the script which causes some filenames to have a carriage return (presumably a '' character).

I want to run a sed command to remove the carriage return from the filenames.

Anyone knows which params to pass to sed to clean up the filenames in the manner described?

I am running on Linux (Ubuntu)

The character causing the filename to 'break up' accross multiple lines appear to be a CR (carriage return) instead of ' '. The filename is being diaplayed in thetitle of a text editor with %0D in the positions of where the file name breaks up. So I need to remove the CR chars from my filenames.

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Feb 12, 2011

I want to rename files in multiple subfolders with a prefix (e.g., rename "file.tif" with "prefix_file.tif") and not have to be in the subfolder.

code: for f in /path/to/*; do echo mv "$f" "PRE_$f"; done

gives you this: mv /path/to/file1 PRE_/path/to/file1

instead I want this: mv /path/to/file1 /path/to/PRE_file1

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Mar 6, 2011

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Feb 3, 2010

Basically I need to rename a bunch of .doc files using the for-structure and the mv command (w/ wildcards) in bash. I guess this would be a bit easier if I'd use the rename command, but since this is a school assignment of sorts I need to use for & mv. The .doc files are named "1filename.doc", "2filename.doc" etc. And I've got to rename them to "aaa_1filename.doc", "aaa_2filename.doc", "aaa_3filename.doc" and so on. Tried to dabble quite a bit with the for and mv commands, basically just got a bunch of errors. Every damn time. For 2 hours. The most common error was "mv: missing destination file operand after ..."

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Mar 28, 2011

i have inherited a mixed bag of sorts: several xp users updating an access mdb with the BE on a lamp stack shared via samba. i have a backup device which gets mounted at: /media/disk... each client record (has) a folder by the companyname on the samba share, and all relative documents are placed there. when the backup script runs, it just copies newer or missing files.

someone has been renaming folders, and not matching the folder name to the related companyname from the mdb. so...the backup script captures and duplicates the data in the renamed folders. some client records also have periods in the name (not required from a data pov), such as 'Company Ltd.' instead of 'Company Ltd'. i can produce a list of company names as the folders should be found easily enough, but get a little stuck with the linux scripting.

i can easily remove and further prevent any unwanted punctuation in the company name on the client record, and create the correct folder name on the samba share with vba, but would also like to:

-for each 'client activity' folder on the backup device
-rename the folder by removing punctuation marks
or
-delete the folder if is a dupe

i tried: ls -al | grep '&' - it properly returns only those lines with an ampersand in the folder name, but returns all folders when i try that with a '.'.

what would be the easiest method to do the renaming? i thought if there was a way to change ownership of the mounted device, then the vba code (easy to write) would be simple.

OK - i just ran chown -R on the external device, changing ownership to (me) instead of root. didn't want to because it took too long, but can now use the MoveFolder method of the filesystemobject from my app to do the renaming instead of some sort of bash script (which i was dreading).

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Mar 20, 2011

Today i am trying to learn how to use sed. I set up a testing folder with the following files:

AAb.lol
AAc.lol
AAx.lol
test.sh

My goal is to create a script (test.sh) which renames all the files to their original name without AA. I want to end up with this:

b.lol
c.lol
x.lol
test.sh

sed seemed to be the perfect tool so i went ahead and created a script which i think should clear the job.

[Code].........

mv: missing destination file operand after `$i' From that 2nd line i can tell that $NewName is just empty. I also read something about sed needing the -e option for scripting purposes but i just don't understand it.

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Jul 2, 2010

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Is there an easy way to do this or will i just have to write a shell script?

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Nov 3, 2010

Have nautilus -dropbox from this page : dropbox-deb-amd64-package/.Trying to run multiple dropbox accounts on one computer, see :multiple-dropbox-instances-in-same-time.html.When I run HOME=$HOME/.dropbox-alt /usr/bin/dropbox start -i I

get : ~$ HOME=$HOME/.dropbox-alt /usr/bin/dropbox start -i
Starting Dropbox...No protocol specified
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Apr 10, 2011

Since I installed Dropbox every time I insert a usb device nautilus opens a bunch of identical windows. I think my records i 12 so far. All with the error
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I cannot eject the device via dolphin or erase anything via dolphin.

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Aug 23, 2010

I am to rename all the files within a directory (which contains multiple subdirectories) recursively without invalid characters.

I tried the coding posted above.

find . -type f -printf '%p
' | while read file; do
oldfile=$(basename "$file")
newfile=$(echo "$oldfile" | sed 's/[^A-Za-z0-9_.]/_/g')
if [ ! "$newfile" == "$oldfile" ]; then
echo mv "$file" "${file%$oldfile}$newfile"
code....

but I get an error on both of them stating "find: bad option -printf find: [-H | -L] path-list predicate-list"

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Nov 29, 2010

Ok I have used dropbox for a long time but never had an issue but since recently switching to Ubuntu it seems that when I download a file and drag it into my dropbox the file shows in dropbox but it doesn't seem to be applying ...after dragging it into dropbox in the upper right hand corner of the file there is a blue circle with two white arrows in it while all existing files that I out into dropbox prior to using Ubuntu are there and accessible and have a green checkmark in the upper right hand corner..

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Feb 10, 2011

I'm trying to rename ~11000 files. What has happened is I have files in the following format:

string1_100_string2_200_string3_300.log

now the numbers 200 and 300 are sometimes below 100 and the file looks like this:

string1_100_string2_99_string3_99.log

and I want to rename such files to be like this:

string1_100_string2_099_string3_099.log

I wrote a small matlab script but it seems to take forever so thought I'd try and do it bash and have got near to nowhere....

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Apr 19, 2011

i have some files on my server that i can not rename or copy it seems file names are some how strange for linux (centos)the names are like this way :

Spirited.Away.2001.HDRip_-_(Film98-Net).mkv
Up.2009.BRrip_-_(Film98-Net).mkv
How.To.Train.Your.Dragon.2010.720p.Bluray_-_(Film98-Net).mkv

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Apr 23, 2011

I had everything backed up so it is no great disaster, but drop box lost a lot of my files. Some of the folders with missing files now have thumbs.db in them, but when you go to the dropbox site, you don't even see that.

I had thought about using dropbox as my main backup solution. That would be a big mistake.

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Jan 11, 2011

Whenever I download a file using Firefox or Google Chrome and it has a ' character on it's filename, the file is renamed and a is added before the '. It's really annoying and I'd like to know how can I solve this issue.

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Mar 31, 2011

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Apr 1, 2010

I'm trying to rename a lot of files getting rid of the space on the names. For that purpose I wrote this very simple bash script, but for some reason is not working.

Code:
for i in "$(ls)"
do
j=$(echo "$i" | sed 's/ /_/g')
mv "$i" "$j"

done But what I get in return for each line is just one long file name with all the file names concatenated. I've tried with echo -e "$i" as well with no results. This has to be something really simple that I'm missing but I just can't see it.

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Jul 19, 2010

I have a bunch of files that I need to rename, ordinarily this is pretty easy task. The problem here is that the file names have Chinese / Japanese characters. ie [$$$$$$$$].SOMETHING BLAH BLAH.ext Where all the "$$$$" are insert Chinese characters. The problem is that sed or perl doesn't seem to handle the Chinese characters correctly so using a regular expression like this 's/^[*.]//' which would normally work doesn't. From what I have read so far I believe these characters are double encoded UTF-8 (not 100% sure) which could be the problem. So far I've tried numerous different regex's as well as playing around with convmv to see if I could convert the filenames to just single encoded characters but I've had no luck.

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Apr 9, 2010

I would like to get a recommendation to get a backup program under Linux.

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Jan 14, 2011

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One of the things that bugged me, was that bash/ssh/screen and other settings weren't synchronised between those new computers. And that I had to go through the hassle of having to recreate all those files when using a new computer. So I decided to start using Dropbox for this as well.

Code:
#!/bin/bash
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It gets pretty annoying to me to have to create a symlink every time I start up my computer so I can listen to the radio. Is there a way to get linux to permanently name "/dev/radio0" as "/dev/radio"?

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