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RSH

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Location: Germany

Posted: Wed 05 Dec 2012, 23:52 Post_subject:

How to use Bash to bulk-edit filenames?

Hi.

I have a list like this one:

Code:

LP2_AbiWord-2.8.6.sfs
LP2_AFI-1.0.3.sfs
...
LP2_Aqualung09b11.sfs
LP2_Ardour286.sfs
...
LP2_AsUnder_2.1.sfs
LP2_AutoAdjustPhoto_GUI-1.0.1.sfs
...
...
...

I want to remove the "LP2_" prefix and everything except the name, like the "09b11.sfs" from Aqualung, the "-1.0.1.sfs" from AutoAdjustPhoto, the "_2.1.sfs" from AsUnder and the "-2.8.6.sfs" from AbiWord.

Could this be done using a single command like sed?

If, how?

Or will the different endings:" -1.0.1.sfs" - "_2.1.sfs" - "09b11.sfs" cause problems?

Thanks

RSH

Edit: I want to do this using bash.
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jamesbond

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Posts: 1573
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Posted: Thu 06 Dec 2012, 07:41 Post_subject:

The LP2 prefix is easy.

Assuming that stuff is stored in a file called input.txt (one for each line), you can do either:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
while read p; do
echo ${p#LP2_}
done < input.txt > output.txt

Code:

sed 's/^LP2_//' input.txt > output.txt

The suffix, however, is difficult, because there is no way to know a certain word is part of the suffix to be erased, or it is part of the name you want to keep, so you'll have to use a marker that is unique to separate between the words you want to keep and the suffix you want to delete. It can the the last underscore (_), last minus (-), or whatever.

I will assume here that you've decided that all the suffix will be preceded by an underscore; that is, everything after the last underscore will be deleted.

Code:

#!/bin/sh
while read p; do
echo ${p%_*}
done < input.txt > output.txt

Code:

sed 's/_[^_]*$//' input.txt > output.txt

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Geoffrey

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Posted: Thu 06 Dec 2012, 07:49 Post_subject: Re: How to remove parts from filename?
Sub_title: How to do this using bash

RSH wrote:

Hi.

I have a list like this one:

Code:

LP2_AbiWord-2.8.6.sfs
LP2_AFI-1.0.3.sfs
...
LP2_Aqualung09b11.sfs
LP2_Ardour286.sfs
...
LP2_AsUnder_2.1.sfs
LP2_AutoAdjustPhoto_GUI-1.0.1.sfs
...
...
...

Will something like this help

Code:

#!/bin/bash
sed -r 's/[_-0123456789]+/ /g' ./list1 > ./list2
awk '{ print $2 }' < ./list2 > ./list3
sed '/^ *$/d' < ./list3 > ./list4

input list

Code:

LP2_AbiWord-2.8.6.sfs
LP2_AFI-1.0.3.sfs
...
LP2_Aqualung09b11.sfs
LP2_Ardour286.sfs
...
LP2_AsUnder_2.1.sfs
LP2_AutoAdjustPhoto_GUI-1.0.1.sfs
...
...
...

output list

Code:

AbiWord
AFI
Aqualung
Ardour
AsUnder
AutoAdjustPhoto

createlist.tar.gz
Description		Download
Filename	createlist.tar.gz
Filesize	374 Bytes
Downloaded	110 Time(s)

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RSH

Joined: 05 Sep 2011
Posts: 1564
Location: Germany

Posted: Thu 06 Dec 2012, 08:29 Post_subject:

Thanks to both of you, jamesbond and Geoffrey!

Quote:

Will something like this help

Code:

#!/bin/bash
sed -r 's/[_-0123456789]+/ /g' ./list1 > ./list2
awk '{ print $2 }' < ./list2 > ./list3
sed '/^ *$/d' < ./list3 > ./list4

Yes, this is great help! Thanks.

It doesn't work on some special names like LP2_SAG_CAD-0.9.14.sfs, which returns SAG only instead of SAG_CAD. Never mind, I can refine these special cases manually.

It is much better than to refine the complete list (272 lines) manually (several times).

Thanks
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