seethru Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 weird question, I'm trying to organize my mp3s a little better and wish to append text to the start of each filename in each folder, so like #-title becomes artist-#-title. Anyone know the rename string to do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaguratuS Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 Talk to me on msn if you have any more problems ;) For anyone else who might want to know: for f in *; do mv $f added_before_`basename $f`_added_after; done; Original file: somefile.mp3 New file: added_before_somefile.mp3_added_after basename can be used to strip, eg. for f in *; do mv $f added_before_`basename $f .mp3`_added_after; done; Original file: somefile.mp3 New file: added_before_somefile_added_after Likewise, you could use it to append text to the end, while keeping a file extension for f in *; do mv $f added_before_`basename $f .mp3`_added_after.mp3; done; Which gives you added_before_somefile_added_after.mp3 It's really self explanatory, don't be afraid to look at what it's actually doing :happy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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