[String] [Int-Int] String Int [String] [String].format
And I need to be able to rename them to
[String] String Int [String].format
So for example I have a file named
[Abc] [58-97] bcde 05 [123a] [A2BCF3].txt
And I need it renamed to
[Abc] bcde 05 [123a].txt
But it’s not just one file, I have hundreds of files with the same kind of name pattern that I also need to rename in the exact same way.
How can I achieve this?
I mean ideally I’d want to just be able to do something like rename -v 's/[*-*]//' *.txt as a start, then figure out something for that last string in a separate command. But clearly that command won’t work or I wouldn’t be here asking for help
If you’re using The Superior Desktop™, KRename supports regular expressions and previews before committing to the bulk rename. You can add individual files or entire folders (even recursively) in your batch job.
It also comes with some nifty plugins too. But in your case, the “Find and Replace” option (under the Filename tab) should suffice.
Make sure not to hit Finish until everything in the preview pane looks correct.
Well, I have never used rename, but it either way doesn’t appear to be working the way you intended it. I’m looking at the man page now, and it doesn’t appear to support regular expressions.
I would probably tackle something like that with a script, involving either sed or tr.
I tried a bunch of things but it’s just not behaving like I expect.
\[*-*\]
and
[*-*]
Give the same result, it removes the very first [String] and the second [String] (should only remove the [Int-Int]) keeping the [Int-Int] and the last [String] (the exact two things I want to remove )
][*].txt
and
\]\[*\].mkv
Which should remove only the last [String] but it instead achieves the exact same result as the above. I am very confused rn.
I’m assuming the last “bracket group” is a consistent 6-character HEX string, while the second “bracket group” is always two numbers with a hyphen between.
In KRename, you would “replace” these with “nothing”, which essentially removes them.
EDIT: Nope, still nada. But I think I’m getting closer…
I tried that last one you suggested but it wouldn’t work. (neither part)
Either way now I only need to lose the last one, the one you assumed is probably a cinsistent 6-character HEX string (you are probably right about this)
yeah I decided I don’t need to get rid of that last bracket with the hexadecimal numbers in it, it can stay, I mainly needed to get rid of the [int-int] string because it was ■■■■■■■ up my file sorting
#!/bin/bash
for filename in *
do
old=$(basename "${filename%.*}")
suffix=$(basename "${filename##old}")
new=$(echo "${old}" | awk 'END { print $1" "$2" "$3" "$4 }')
echo Rename "${old}${suffix}" to "${new}${suffix}"? [Y/n]
read -p reply
if [ "$reply" == "Y" -o "$reply" == "y" ]
then
mv "${old}${suffix}" "${new}${suffix}"
fi
done
There’s a built-in safety ─ it asks for confirmation ─ but still…
It is of course a bash script, so you should save it in ~/.local/bin and give it execute permission before attempting to run it.
If it works on the first couple of files, then you can interrupt the script with Ctrl+C, edit the script, remove the confirmation check, save it and then run it again.
Beat me to it
I also wasnt sure if its all in the same directory or if we need to recursively find them…
So heres a quick version for that, though it only checks for the first 2 columns.
(could be expanded, could be fed to a rename action, or could just be tested to see if it finds everything)
find ./ -type f -name '\[[A-Z][a-z][a-z]\]\ \[[0-9][0-9]\-[0-9][0-9]\]'*
Looks like a CRC32 checksum. I would leave them in the file’s name, since it’s a free pre-hashed value.
I was going to mention it earlier, but then I saw it was only 6 hexadecimal digits; but now you’ve made an update and it is indeed 8 hexadecimal digits.
awk: cmd. line:1: END { print $1" "$2" "$3" "$4
awk: cmd. line:1: ^ unexpected newline or end of string
Thank you for your effort though, but you really don’t need to worry about it I’m already satisfied with just having removed the [Int-Int] part, that was my main goal. Removing the (what I now presume to be) CRC32 Checksum part was just an afterthought really, it’s not necessary, it would just be for aesthetics anyways.
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I’m already satisfied with just having removed the [Int-Int] part, that was my main goal. Removing the (what I now presume to be) CRC32 Checksum part was just an afterthought really, it’s not necessary, it would just be for aesthetics anyways.