[ACCEPTED]-Renaming files with Bash, removing prefix and suffix-file-rename
Accepted answer
Another approach, for fun, using regular 3 expressions:
regex='prefix - (.*) - suffix.txt'
for f in *.txt; do
[[ $f =~ $regex ]] && mv "$f" "${BASH_REMATCH[1]}.txt"
done
Actually, using the simple pattern 2 '*.txt' here has two problems:
- It's too broad; you may need to apply the regex to a lot of non-matching files.
- If there are a lot of files in the current directory, the command line could overflow.
Using find complicates 1 the procedure, but is more correct:
find . -maxdepth 1 -regex 'prefix - .* - suffix.txt' -print0 | \
while read -d '' -r; do
[[ $REPLY =~ $regex ]] && mv "$REPLY" "${BASH_REMATCH[1]}.txt"
done
If you have access to GNU sed, you could use some 1 regex to perform something like:
for i in *.txt; do mv "$i" "$(echo $i | sed -r 's/([^-]*)\s-\s(.*)\s-\s([^-]*)\.txt/\2.txt/')"; done
you could use this:
find . -name "*.txt" -print0 | awk -v RS="\0" -v ORS="\0" '{print $0;sub(/^prefix - /,""); sub(/ - suffix.txt$/,".txt"); print $0; }' | xargs -0 -n 2 mv
which could be written 1 more clearly as:
find . -name "*.txt" -print0 |
awk -v RS="\0" -v ORS="\0" '{
print $0;
sub(/^prefix - /,"");
sub(/ - suffix.txt$/,".txt");
print $0;
}' |
xargs -0 -n 2 mv
If you have emacs installed. You can use the 1 dired feature.
In bash:
# open your dir with emacs
emacs /path/to/your/dir
In emacs:
- Press *%Enter
\.txt$Enter to mark alltxtfiles. - Press %rEnter
.*- \(.*\) -.*Enter\1.txtEnter to rename.
Source:
stackoverflow.com
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