On Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 9:50:06 PM UTC+5:30, Thomas George wrote:
> The problem is editing long file names to shorten them. An example group
> of file names is attached.
>
> The bash script copied from BashScripting is attached. This script works
> perfectly with simple deletions, for e
Thanks to all for very helpful responses. I have been trying to reinvent
the wheel, rename does the job nicely and the perl regex's are more
reliable. ^.*?-. allows removing the to the first - so repeated
applications remove to the track numbers. The comments regarding the
Trim_Line script were
On Tue 14 Nov 2017 at 11:07:47 (-0500), Thomas George wrote:
> The problem is editing long file names to shorten them.
> An example group of file names is attached.
I thought someone might mention MC for doing this.
The sequence of operations I would use here is:
Select the files you want to ch
On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 07:37:34PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after reading man 1 "read", i have to add option "-r" to my proposal:
>
> ls -d * | grep "$1" | while read -r filename
That fixes one problem, but there are plenty more still unfixed.
If the user input ("$1") is to be t
On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 07:21:55PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> ls -d * | grep "$1" | while read filename
Eww. No. That code is broken in multiple ways.
> n=$(echo "$fname" | sed -e s/"$1"//)
>
> Regrettably i found no way to make this safe against newlines in filenames.
Hi,
after reading man 1 "read", i have to add option "-r" to my proposal:
ls -d * | grep "$1" | while read -r filename
Have a nice day :)
Thomas
Hi,
i see at least one problem in Trim_Line.sh :
It uses "$1" as shell parser input and as sed regular expression.
With "S.*-" as "$1", the meaning differs in both contexts.
The shell parser input of
for filename in *$1*
will look for files with a text snippet "S.".
The expression in
s/$1
On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 11:07:47AM -0500, Thomas George wrote:
>
> After experimenting with regular expressions with sed I found ls | sed -e
> s/S.*-// reduced the file names in File.txt to just the names of the Carols
> as shown in sed.txt. Used like this sed leaves the original file unchanged.
>
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