On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:13 PM, pete <p.nikolic1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 I like using vim for those tasks because of the interactivity (I fear my dirty little scripts will go rogue and ruin all my files...) Here's how it works: $ ls | vim - Then I get in vim one line per filename (unless there's a file with a \n in its name, wich there never will be on my system!) I use some vim commands to get something like (usualy something with :%s/foo/bar) ... mv "IMG_7127 EOS-1D Mark III copy.jpg" "IMG_7127.jpg" mv "IMG_7128 EOS-1D Mark III copy.jpg" "IMG_7128.jpg" ... Then I triple check if everything is OK (did I mention I'm paranoid?) And finaly :w !sh To make vim execute the whole file as a sh script. Done.
