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sorry for the OT post but I know more than half of you will know: how can I easily batch-rename all my mac mp3s so I can put them on a windows partion? I'm pretty stumped and figure there must be some kind of shareware that will do it ... dammit. NP: drukqs (for the first time in months!) ZAP --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

check for "r-name" or "a better finder rename" on www.tucows.com From: dave_dunstan <dominodigital@dominodigital.com>

quoted 3 lines how can I easily batch-rename all my mac mp3s so I can put them on a

> how can I easily batch-rename all my mac mp3s so I can put them on a > windows partion? I'm pretty stumped and figure there must be some kind > of shareware that will do it ... dammit.

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On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 12:22 AM, dave_dunstan wrote:

quoted 7 lines sorry for the OT post but I know more than half of you will know:

> > sorry for the OT post but I know more than half of you will know: > > how can I easily batch-rename all my mac mp3s so I can put them on a > windows partion? I'm pretty stumped and figure there must be some kind > of > shareware that will do it ... dammit.

i cant remember the regular expression for whitespace, i think its \s, but im not sure.. anyway, do something like this in a terminal, in the directory where your mp3's are. for i in `find . ` ; do echo "mv $i `echo $i | sed s/\s/_/` ; done thats not exact, and that in itself wont work, but its close. (remove the echo part once the output looks okay.) erm.. if this is over your head, mail me back offlist and i'll try to help you out a bit more. note: doing this will break your current itunes library. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

Brett Dietsch wrote:

quoted 1 line for i in `find . ` ; do echo "mv $i `echo $i | sed s/\s/_/` ; done

> for i in `find . ` ; do echo "mv $i `echo $i | sed s/\s/_/` ; done

Whoa - that's at least missing quotes around the "$i"... But still - whitespace (at least spaces) sure aren't a problem on Windows partitions, so are you sure it'll help? (Replacing all whitespace with an underscore is going a bit to far, I'd say...) -- Kurt Bernhard Pruenner --- Haendelstrasse 17 --- 4020 Linz --- Austria .......It might be written "Mindfuck", but it's spelt "L-A-I-N"....... np: Pop-Gas/03-Track 3.mp3 (including a space character and directly ripped from my CD to my harddisc under Windows 2000... :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

Oh my god, you guys deleted all my mp3s!!!! OH NO!!!! Just kidding. Thanks for replying. I haven't tried these suggestions out yet but thanks for sending me more info to work with. dave NP: no music just overheard office conversations. wack. On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Kurt Bernhard Pruenner wrote:

quoted 10 lines Brett Dietsch wrote:

> Brett Dietsch wrote: > > for i in `find . ` ; do echo "mv $i `echo $i | sed s/\s/_/` ; done > > Whoa - that's at least missing quotes around the "$i"... > > But still - whitespace (at least spaces) sure aren't a problem on Windows > partitions, so are you sure it'll help? (Replacing all whitespace with an > underscore is going a bit to far, I'd say...) > >

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On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 01:47 PM, Kurt Bernhard Pruenner wrote:

quoted 4 lines Brett Dietsch wrote:

> Brett Dietsch wrote: >> for i in `find . ` ; do echo "mv $i `echo $i | sed s/\s/_/` ; done > > Whoa - that's at least missing quotes around the "$i"...

nah, you dont need a quote around throw-away variables. you may need a quote elsewhere though, like here: echo "$i | sed s/\s/_/" mind you, im too lazy to actually test any of this right now. with the above stuff, you'll probably get a lot of lines thinking that you mean to make each character separated by spaces a separate line, but hey.. google.

quoted 5 lines But still - whitespace (at least spaces) sure aren't a problem on

> But still - whitespace (at least spaces) sure aren't a problem on > Windows > partitions, so are you sure it'll help? (Replacing all whitespace with > an > underscore is going a bit to far, I'd say...)

this is true. the only thing that'll bitch is dos, but why would you play mp3's in dos? but itunes wont care if you replace them, as long as you tell it not to organize the files. if you do, it'll rename them every time you import them. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

#!/bin/csh # you need to quote the filenames with double quotes so that # $x gets expanded, but doesn't get split at spaces # and don't forget the g on the search replace, or it will # only replace the first space foreach x (`find . -print`) mv "$x" `echo $x | sed -e 's/\s/ /g'` end On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Brett Dietsch wrote:

quoted 36 lines On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 01:47 PM, Kurt Bernhard Pruenner wrote:

> > On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 01:47 PM, Kurt Bernhard Pruenner wrote: > > > Brett Dietsch wrote: > >> for i in `find . ` ; do echo "mv $i `echo $i | sed s/\s/_/` ; done > > > > Whoa - that's at least missing quotes around the "$i"... > > nah, you dont need a quote around throw-away variables. you may need a > quote elsewhere though, like here: > > echo "$i | sed s/\s/_/" > > mind you, im too lazy to actually test any of this right now. with the > above stuff, you'll probably get a lot of lines thinking that you mean > to make each character separated by spaces a separate line, but hey.. > google. > > > But still - whitespace (at least spaces) sure aren't a problem on > > Windows > > partitions, so are you sure it'll help? (Replacing all whitespace with > > an > > underscore is going a bit to far, I'd say...) > > this is true. the only thing that'll bitch is dos, but why would you > play mp3's in dos? > > but itunes wont care if you replace them, as long as you tell it not to > organize the files. if you do, it'll rename them every time you import > them. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org > For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org >

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On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 02:21 PM, Kent williams wrote:

quoted 4 lines # you need to quote the filenames with double quotes so that

> # you need to quote the filenames with double quotes so that > # $x gets expanded, but doesn't get split at spaces > # and don't forget the g on the search replace, or it will > # only replace the first space

you've all just witnessed me being corrected and schooled. csh is for pansies though. :-p --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Brett Dietsch wrote:

quoted 12 lines On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 02:21 PM, Kent williams wrote:

> > On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 02:21 PM, Kent williams wrote: > > > # you need to quote the filenames with double quotes so that > > # $x gets expanded, but doesn't get split at spaces > > # and don't forget the g on the search replace, or it will > > # only replace the first space > > you've all just witnessed me being corrected and schooled. > > csh is for pansies though. :-p >

Heh, I wasn't schooling you -- you would have figured it out if you'd actually run that script. I actually have that script stuck in my ~/bin, so i just cut'n'pasted it. Csh/Sh/Bash whatever. I actually WROTE a fully functional C shell for dos, back in the mid-80s. So I know the syntax really well. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org