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[Fwd: Re: File renaming using SED in BASH]


From: Roman Rakus
Subject: [Fwd: Re: File renaming using SED in BASH]
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:23:01 +0200
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: File renaming using SED in BASH Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:21:42 +0200 User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080723)
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)::'
mv $f $chg
done

I get:
bash: 001: command not found
mv: target `(www.somewhere.net).jpg' is not a directory
bash: 002: command not found
mv: target `(www.somewhere.net).jpg' is not a directory
bash: 003: command not found
mv: target `(www.somewhere.net).jpg' is not a directory


What am I doing wrong?

Thankyou all in advance.
Or use rename:
rename \(www.www.somewhere.net\).jpg .jpg *.jpg
I think this is fastest and clearest.


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