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Hackling
Hackling

Reputation: 113

Mass file renaming in Csh

I'm trying to rename all the files in a directory in csh (I'm using FreeNAS).

I thought I had the hang of it until I accidentally prepended to the whole file name so now I have files of the format

Veronica Mars - 1x22 Leave It to Beaver.mkv - HDTV 720p

and would like them in the format of 

Veronica Mars - 1x22 Leave It to Beaver - HDTV 720p.mkv

I would like to do this purely with a script so that I can ssh in to my box and run it without having to install anything extra.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 622

Answers (2)

ivicaa
ivicaa

Reputation: 625

Check if rename is available on your system:

rename 's/\.mkv/ - HDTV 720p.mkv/' *.mkv

EDIT: Then you have to do some shell script programming (bash)

for i in *.mkv; do j=echo $i | cut -d . -f 1; r=$j" - HDTV 720p.mkv"; mv "$i" "$r"; done

Upvotes: 0

Christian Aichinger
Christian Aichinger

Reputation: 7237

The most expedient way to do this is probably vidir, which allows you to edit the filenames in a directory in a text editor. You can then use Vim's or Emacs' column editing/search and replace.

You can download vidir, and here's a brief introduction.

The only caveat is that it's written in perl, not sure if FreeNAS has that available.

Upvotes: 1

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