trying to rename the files in dir

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I have bunch of files in win xp machine with

123456 E15 filename
112333.E20 filename
123412.E11 filename

you get the pic, I mount that xp machine's share into linux and try to do a mass rename to something simpler

E15 filename
E20 filename and so on..

I wrote below thinking that it would work but it does not.. can someone advise?

#!/bin/sh
ls |
egrep "^[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]" |
while read a
do
echo $a
yahoo=`sed 's/^[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][ .]//gi'`
mv $a $yahoo ; mv $yahoo $a
done

2

yahoo=`sed 's/^[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][ .]//gi'`

You're not giving sed any input. You need to echo $a into it or something like that. But then it looks like your two mv statement cancel each other. :confused: I don't really understand your script.

3

Assuming the first filename is 123456.E15 filename and not 123456 E15 filename, with zsh:

autoload -U zmv
zmv '[0-9]*.(*)' '$1'
4

I guess below is what I try to do.. and does it make sense?

trying to rename a file.. so i guess mv $a $yahoo is ok?

and yes some file has 6 digits following by space or .

#!/bin/sh
ls |
    egrep "^[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]" |
     while read a
      do
         yahoo=`echo $a |sed 's/^[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][ .]//gi'`
         mv $a $yahoo  
done
5

Below code seem to work..

070625 kbs1.E41.You.Landscape.kor.hdtv.original.avi

was the original file name I did test on..

#!/bin/sh
ls |
    egrep "^[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]" |
     while read a
      do
         yahoo=`echo $a |sed 's/^[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][ .]//gi'`
         echo $yahoo
         mv "$a" "$yahoo"
done

Now I am trying to modify that so it will take out kbs1,

other file might have

mbc,sbs,kbs,kbs1 mbc1 mbc2 kbs2 but below did not work

#!/bin/sh
ls |
    egrep "^[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]" |
     while read a
      do
         yahoo=`echo $a |sed 's/^[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][ .]//gi' | sed 's/^[kms]b[sc][12]?//gi`
         echo $yahoo
         mv "$a" "$yahoo"
done
6

I think below works.. I guess + is not supported under sed..

I am bit nervous to run below command on folder that I have so many avi files.. I don't want to wreck anything up.. does anyone see any danger?

#!/bin/sh
ls |
    egrep "^[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]" |
     while read a
      do
         yahoo=`echo $a |sed 's/^[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][ .]//gi' | sed 's/^[kms]b[cs][^.]*\.//gi'`
         echo $yahoo
         mv "$a" "$yahoo"
done
7

I would first do:

echo mv "$a" "$yahoo"

and then look at the output to be sure. And I would have a backup so I can recover if it fumbles.

8

rock on guys.. thanks.. I used cautionary measure and it's all working.. now working on next fix..

E41.You.Landscape.kor.hdtv.original.avi

trying to put below files into different names so that
it will look like----> Love.Or.war.E388.avi

Everyone has different name, so I did below but do not work...

#!/bin/sh
ls |
    egrep "^E[1-9][0-9][0-9]*\." |
     while read a
      do
         yahoo=`echo $a |sed '/\(E[^.]\)\.\([^(kor|hdtv|sdtv|avi)]\)[^(.avi)]\(\.avi\)/\2\1\3/gi'`
         echo $yahoo
         mv "$a" "$yahoo"
done

E388.Love.Or.War.kor.hdtv.avi
E389.Love.Or.War.kor.hdtv.avi
E38.Lovely.Goodday.kor.hdtv.avi
E38.The.Happy.Woman.kor.sdtv.avi
E38.You.Landscape.kor.hdtv.avi
E39.The.Happy.Woman.kor.sdtv.avi
E39.You.Landscape.kor.hdtv.avi
E40.The.Happy.Woman.kor.sdtv.avi
E41.The.Happy.Woman.kor.sdtv.avi
E42.Lovely.Goodday.kor.hdtv.avi
E42.The.Happy.Woman.kor.sdtv.avi
E43.Lovely.Goodday.kor.hdtv.avi
E43.The.Happy.Woman.kor.sdtv.avi

9

not clean.. but just did it below..

if someone can tell me better ways to do it.. please let m know.. also. in chracter class.. why can't ^ group of consecutives words?

#!/bin/sh
ls |
    egrep -i "^E[0-9][0-9][0-9]*\." |
     while read a
      do
         yahoo=`echo $a |sed 's/\.//gi' |
                sed 's/^\(E[0-9][0-9][0-9]*\)\(.*\)\(avi$\)/\2\1\.\3/gi'`
         # E41YouLandscapekorhdtvoriginalavi
         echo $yahoo
         mv "$a" "$yahoo"
done