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ABZ
ABZ

Reputation: 15

Remove all non-numeric characters in a file name

I have a large number of files that are named in the format: ABC_XYZ_123.jpg.

I want to rename them in bulk so that I can get the format: 123.jpg.

How can I do this on a Mac?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 926

Answers (2)

l'L'l
l'L'l

Reputation: 47169

Using find in terminal:

find . -type f -name "*_*_*.jpg" -execdir bash -c 'mv "$0" "${0##*_}"' {} \;

Would result in:

ABC_XYZ_123.jpg -> 123.jpg

Upvotes: 1

Apalala
Apalala

Reputation: 9224

Because I can never remember the command lines of the stools that specialize on this kind of stuff (like rename) I create a bash script that does the task:

$ ls > x.sh
$ vi x. sh

Within VI:

:%s/^[a-z_]*\(.*\)$/mv \0 \1/`

and then:

$ source x.sh

rename can do the likes, but, as I said, I've never bothered to learn it.

$ brew install rename

Upvotes: 0

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