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Old 07-27-2008, 10:02 AM   #1
Scorpuk
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Need help creating a script to delete part of a filename


Currently running Ubuntu 8.04 with MythTV 0.21.

I have run mythrename.pl to rename my recordings by "Title - Subtitle - Year-Month-Day.mpg"

So I end up like this:

"Heroes - Four Months Ago - 2008-06-05.mpg"

Unfortunately some of the subtitles are listed as "Untitled". This is the part I would like to remove.

ie change

"Black Hawk Down - Untitled - 2008-07-02.mpg"

into

"Black Hawk Down - 2008-07-02.mpg"



Is this possible?


Thanks for any assistance in this. :-)
 
Old 07-27-2008, 10:32 AM   #2
arizonagroovejet
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Probably a better way, but -

Code:
for i in *.mpg;do if [[ "$i" =~ " Untitled " ]];then mv "$i" "`echo $i | sed 's/- Untitled//'`";fi;done
 
Old 07-28-2008, 10:19 AM   #3
Scorpuk
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Thanks arizonagroovejet for that, but it didnt work:


put the command(s) in a .sh file (added #!/bin/sh to start of it), made it executable and then ran it.

The output I got from it was:


Quote:
./untitled.sh: 3 : [[: not found
repeated the same amount of times as I had files.

I then tried removing the [[ and ]]'s. This looked more promising, but still no cigar.


The output I got was like this:

Quote:
./untitled.sh: 3: Toy Story 2 - Untitled - 2008-03-22.mpg: not found

repeated for each file with or without "- Untitled".


But no name change.


my file:

Code:
#!/bin/sh

for i in *.mpg;do if "$i" =~ " Untitled";then mv "$i" "`echo $i | sed 's/- Untitled//'`";fi;done

Edit:

Silly me... Ran the original command from the CLI and worked. No output on screen, but names have been changed

Last edited by Scorpuk; 07-28-2008 at 10:24 AM. Reason: Eurika !!!!
 
  


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