You don't need a script, you can do that with: rename "EOS-1D Mark III copy" "" *.jpg That removes "EOS-1D Mark III copy" from all files ending in .jpg, assuming they are all in one directory. Thanks, Jarek Sedlacek On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 6:13 PM, 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

Thanks Pete .

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On 02.03.2012 00:16, Florian Pritz wrote:

On 02.03.2012 00:13, pete wrote:

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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

On 01-03-2012 23:18, Mauro Santos wrote:

On 01-03-2012 23:13, pete wrote:

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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

Thanks Pete .

Assuming you don't mind bash scripts, maybe something like:

IF=$'\n? for file in *.jpg do mv "$file" "$(echo $file | cut -f1 -d\ )".jpg done

Should be: IFS=$'\n' ... a little late here, not making much sense now :/ -- Mauro Santos

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:13 PM, pete 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.

You can use the same strategy to get rid of that space: rename " " "" *.jpg Thanks, Jarek Sedlacek On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 6:25 PM, pete wrote:

On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 18:15:56 -0500 Jarek Sedlacek wrote:

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rename "EOS-1D Mark III copy" "" *.jpg

That almost did it now got a space "IMG_7059 .jpg" before the extension on each file

Must admit thanks folks talk about lightening response brilliant

Pete .

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On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 11:13:03PM +0000, 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 you don't mind graphical tools, try metamorphose2, it's available in the aur, and is an extremely powerful renamer, and quite easy to use too. -- O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org

On 02/03/12 07:02, Pataricza Zsolt wrote:

*Küldés ideje:* Fri, 2 Mar 2012 12:28:46 +0530. /gt írta:/

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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 you don't mind graphical tools, try metamorphose2, it's available in

On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 11:13:03PM +0000, pete wrote: the aur, and is an extremely powerful renamer, and quite easy to use too.

And there's GPRename, too.

I've used batren in the past with great results. I couldn't find it in AUR so I've uploaded a PKGBUILD to it. Nice (but old) simple stuff. batren http://batren.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/blis.cgi/Home AUR pkgbuild https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=57220 Regards timttmy

Il 02 marzo 2012 00:13, pete ha scritto:

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

There have been lots of good suggestion. I put on the plate "detox": https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7130 Its purpose is eliminating from filenames charachters that make them difficult to work with, so it's also good for files *beginning* with a space, esoteric utf8 characters, escape codes, parentheses and whatever. It's kind of overkill for this, but it deserves to be mentioned :-) C