James Miller wrote: <snip>
But, on to file names. unfortunately, the names for the pieces I'm recording from this station follow Windows long-file-naming conventions. Even worse, the names tend to be quite complex and long. Here are a couple of examples:
Anton\ Reicha-\ Albert\ Schweitzer\ Quintett\ -\ Wind\ Quintet\ No.9\ in\ D\ major\ Op.91\ No.3-\ Finale-\ Allegretto.mp3
Patrick\ Cohen\ \&\ Mosaiques\ Quartet\ -\ Quintet\ For\ Piano\ \&\ Strings\ In\ D\ Major\,\ Op.56??5\,\ G411\ -??.\ Andante\ Come\ Prima.mp3
Feeding those names to cat so I can join the movements into a single file is going to be a major pain in the wazoo, as they say down at symphony hall. What I was hoping to find is a script that would automatically convert all the wierd characters into more standard Unix file-naming characters. But so far I've come up empty-handed. Can anyone point me to some utility that might do what I need?
As a last resort, I might try to write my own script. I'm not too hot on doing that though, since I'm at an extremely rudimentary level when it comes to script writing. If it comes to that, could someone maybe help me get started by giving an example for a script that would do the renaming I want? I'd like to retain the bulk of the information, though I don't mind truncating words at, say 5 letters. I suppose the main thing would be replaing all the spaces and/or punctuation with dashes and/or underscores.
Thanks, Jam es
man rename ... rename " " "_" * # over and over again. ;-)
HTH, Chuck
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