Re: renaming files

[Moritz Schulte <moritz@chaosdorf.de>]

brian moore <bem@cmc.net> writes:

> > for name in *.mp3; do
> >   newname=$(echo "$name" | sed -e 's/[ "\(\),]//g')
> >   echo "Moving \"$name\" to \"$newname\""
> >   mv -i "$name" "$newname"
> > done
> 
> Oh, goodness, that looks complex.
> 
> % rename 's/[ ,"()]/_/g' *.mp3

Why do it the easy way if there's a complicated one? :)

	moritz
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