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Angela Hewitt
Angela Hewitt

Reputation: 3

trying to use rename command but having issues

I have several files like

file01xyg.mkv file02xyg.mkv file03xyg.mkv file04xyg.mkv file05xyg.mkv file06xyg.mkv

and trying to rename them so they just say 01.mkv 02.mkv etc

I've tried using the rename command by running:

rename -n -e 's/file0[1-6]xyg.mkv/[1-6].mkv/' *.mkv

But then I just get:

(file01xyg.mkv, [1-6].mkv) (file02xyg.mkv, [1-6].mkv) (file03xyg.mkv, [1-6].mkv) (file04xyg.mkv, [1-6].mkv) (file05xyg.mkv, [1-6].mkv) (file06xyg.mkv, [1-6].mkv)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 41

Answers (1)

Socowi
Socowi

Reputation: 27205

The substitution command has the form s/regex/replacement/. The replacement is not a regex, therefore [1-6] inside the replacement is just a literal string.

Use a group () and reference the matched part inside the group using \1:

rename -n 's/file(0[1-6])xyg.mkv/\1.mkv/' *.mkv

Upvotes: 1

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