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Uncle_Psychosis
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 Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 6:29 pm Post subject: Renaming thousands of files in nested directories... |
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Hi guys
Due to me being an absolute muppet and making a typo in my abcde.conf all of my mp3s have got backslashes in the filename. This has caused a problem because the latest version of phonon/amarok can't cope with it and won't play those tracks.
Now, rather than manually rename thousands of files, I was wondering if anyone had a clever way to fix this?
Basically, the files are named like this:
| Code: | | 01\ Example_Artist\ -\ Example_Song_Title.mp3 |
when I want them to be named like
| Code: | | 01 Example_Artist - Example_Song_Title.mp3 |
Any tips?
Also, to add an extra level of complexity the files are all nested within a directory structure:
~/mp3/ripped/$ARTIST/$ALBUM
So there are X amounts of artists, each with Y numbers of subdirectories corresponding to each album...
Anyone help me out?  |
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frostschutz
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| Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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| find ~/mp3/ripped -name "*\\ *.mp3" -exec rename "\\ " " " "{}" \; |
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Uncle_Psychosis
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| Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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| frostschutz wrote: | | find ~/mp3/ripped -name "*\\ *.mp3" -exec rename "\\ " " " "{}" \; |
That removes the first back slash... I take it I can just run it three times and it'll fix all three?
I owe you a huuuuuuuuuge thanks by the way. |
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