Re: File renaming using SED in BASH

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On 2008-09-21, MisterMuv wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am having a problem renaming a files using SED.
>
> The filenames are in the following format: eg
>
> 001 - GreatPics1 (The Opening) (www.somewhere.net).jpg
> 002 - GreatPics2 (The Closing) (www.somewhere.net).jpg
> 003 - GreatPics3 (The Ending) (www.somewhere.net).jpg
>
> I am wanting to remove contents of the second parenthesis, i.e.
> "(www.somewhere.net)".
>
> So the files would end up like:
>
> 001 - GreatPics1 (The Opening) .jpg
> 002 - GreatPics2 (The Closing) .jpg
> 003 - GreatPics3 (The Ending) .jpg
>
> This is what I have so far.
>
> If I use this to test all is well
>
> for f in *
> do
> echo $f |sed 's:(www.somewhere.net)::'
> done
>
> However when I incorporate the mv command all isn't well.
>
> for f in *
> do
> chg=echo $f |sed 's:(www.somewhere.net)::'

   That assigns echo to $chg and tries to execute $f. Use command
   substitution.

> mv $f $chg
> done

for f in *
do
 chg=$( echo "$f" | sed 's:(www.somewhere.net)::' )
 mv "$f" "$chg"
done


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