On 02.03.2012 00:16, Florian Pritz wrote: > On 02.03.2012 00:13, pete wrote: >> Hi folks >> >> Bit sort of off topic but hopefully ok >> >> I have some 350 picture files with names along the lines of >> "IMG_7127 EOS-1D Mark III copy.jpg" i would like to rename them all >> to more like "IMG_7127.jpg" i have tried a few times tonight and cant >> get my head around it anyone got a script that can do it >> > > If the string is always the same use this: > > rename " EOS-1D Mark III copy" "" *.jpg > > If not: > > for file in *.jpg; do > mv "$file" "$(echo "$file" | sed 's/regex here//')" > done > > This won't be fast, but it gets the job done. > Totally forgot about perl-rename there. perl-rename 's/regex here//' *.jpg -- Florian Pritz
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