[Linux-disciples] Deleting the first couple of characters of a file name.

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:18:11AM -0600, Karl Sokol wrote:
> I think that I am missing something.  I tried each of the following...
> 
> nahash at ubuntu:~/music$ rename 's/^\d{1,2}//' /home/nahash/music/*
> nahash at ubuntu:~/music$ rename 's/^\d{2}//' /home/nahash/music/*
> nahash at ubuntu:~/music$ find /home/nahash/music -type f -exec rename 's/^\d{2}//
> ' '{}' \;
> nahash at ubuntu:~/music$
> 
> and still have have files like...
> 
> 09 - Buddy Holly - Peggy Sue.mp3

Yeah, I dunno, it works for me:

(13:18) slaniel at bostoncoop:~$ mkdir foo
(13:18) slaniel at bostoncoop:~$ cd !$
cd foo
(13:18) slaniel at bostoncoop:~/foo$ touch '01 - a file with spaces.mp3'
(13:18) slaniel at bostoncoop:~/foo$ ls
total 8.0K
drwxr-xr-x   2 slaniel slaniel 4.0K 2006-02-10 13:18 .
drwxr-xr-x  22 slaniel slaniel 4.0K 2006-02-10 13:18 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 slaniel slaniel    0 2006-02-10 13:18 01 - a file with spaces.mp3
(13:18) slaniel at bostoncoop:~/foo$ rename 's/^\d{2}//' *
(13:18) slaniel at bostoncoop:~/foo$ ls
total 8.0K
drwxr-xr-x   2 slaniel slaniel 4.0K 2006-02-10 13:18 .
drwxr-xr-x  22 slaniel slaniel 4.0K 2006-02-10 13:18 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 slaniel slaniel    0 2006-02-10 13:18  - a file with spaces.mp3
(13:18) slaniel at bostoncoop:~/foo$

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