Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Per Jessen [09-22-19 04:47]:

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Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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I have erred and need help to correct. I need to rename a series of files baseed on another series of files which contain 12 matching characters:

Might this do the trick:

for i in 190921*09*79*.nef do pref=$(echo $i | cut -d_ -f1-2) suff=$(echo $i | cut -d_ -f3-99)

echo mv $suff.xmp ${pref}_${suff}.xmp done

If you're happy with the 'mv's, remove echo or pipe into 'sh'.

thanks, exactly what I needed. "cut" was what I was hunting for. I have seldom had the need to employe it and it did not come to this old mind. I was trying to work with filename attributes.

It could also have been done with bash regex, string matching and extraction, but I'm always a bit a hazy with those - cut does it for me :-) Nice little brainteaser on a Sunday morning. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (19.5°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

* Carlos E.R. [09-22-19 07:11]:

On 22/09/2019 04.12, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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I have erred and need help to correct. I need to rename a series of files baseed on another series of files which contain 12 matching characters:

Did you try with krename? It is very powerful. There are recipes on google, too (with krename) on how to do what

yes, but google for krename recipies didn't occur

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to be renamed: dse_7905.nef.xmp dse_7906.nef.xmp dse_7907.nef.xmp dse_7908.nef.xmp dse_7910.nef.xmp dse_7915.nef.xmp dse_7916.nef.xmp dse_7917.nef.xmp dse_7919.nef.xmp dse_7920.nef.xmp

names to be matched: 190921_094704_dse_7905.nef 190921_094704_dse_7906.nef 190921_094713_dse_7907.nef 190921_094717_dse_7908.nef 190921_094805_dse_7910.nef 190921_094831_dse_7915.nef 190921_094834_dse_7916.nef 190921_094834_dse_7917.nef 190921_094836_dse_7919.nef 190921_094843_dse_7920.nef

so I end up with: 190921_094704_dse_7905.nef 190921_094704_dse_7905.nef.xmp 190921_094704_dse_7906.nef 190921_094704_dse_7906.nef.xmp 190921_094713_dse_7907.nef 190921_094713_dse_7907.nef.xmp 190921_094717_dse_7908.nef 190921_094717_dse_7908.nef.xmp 190921_094805_dse_7910.nef 190921_094805_dse_7910.nef.xmp 190921_094831_dse_7915.nef 190921_094831_dse_7915.nef.xmp 190921_094834_dse_7916.nef 190921_094834_dse_7916.nef.xmp 190921_094834_dse_7917.nef 190921_094834_dse_7917.nef.xmp 190921_094836_dse_7919.nef 190921_094836_dse_7919.nef.xmp 190921_094843_dse_7920.nef 190921_094843_dse_7920.nef.xmp

I'm confused about what has to be converted to what. :-?

the dse_????.nef need to be renamed to match the 190921_??????_dse_????.nef.xmp Per's example worked perfectly after minor adjustments for file locations. case closed, tks -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

* Carlos E. R. [09-22-19 09:36]:

On 22/09/2019 15.02, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Carlos E.R. <> [09-22-19 07:11]:

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On 22/09/2019 04.12, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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I have erred and need help to correct. I need to rename a series of files baseed on another series of files which contain 12 matching characters:

Did you try with krename? It is very powerful. There are recipes on google, too (with krename) on how to do what

yes, but google for krename recipies didn't occur

Right... Maybe I used a different google foo the last time.

Some: https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/extragear-utils/krusader/faq_usage.html

"krusader" ??? -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Hi, all -- ...and then Patrick Shanahan said... % ... % Per's example worked perfectly after minor adjustments for file locations. % % case closed, tks Dang! I knew I'd want to get back to this one sooner than later... I had high hopes my simple shell globbing one-liner would be a favorite ;-) davidtg@u17383850:/tmp/PS> touch `cat list` davidtg@u17383850:/tmp/PS> ls -goh total 4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Sep 23 22:33 190921_094704_dse_7905.nef -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Sep 23 22:33 190921_094704_dse_7906.nef -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Sep 23 22:33 190921_094713_dse_7907.nef -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Sep 23 22:33 190921_094717_dse_7908.nef -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Sep 23 22:33 190921_094805_dse_7910.nef -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Sep 23 22:33 190921_094831_dse_7915.nef -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Sep 23 22:33 190921_094834_dse_7916.nef -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Sep 23 22:33 190921_094834_dse_7917.nef -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Sep 23 22:33 190921_094836_dse_7919.nef -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Sep 23 22:33 190921_094843_dse_7920.nef -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Sep 23 22:33 dse_7905.nef.xmp -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Sep 23 22:33 dse_7906.nef.xmp -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Sep 23 22:33 dse_7907.nef.xmp -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Sep 23 22:33 dse_7908.nef.xmp -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Sep 23 22:33 dse_7910.nef.xmp -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Sep 23 22:33 dse_7915.nef.xmp -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Sep 23 22:33 dse_7916.nef.xmp -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Sep 23 22:33 dse_7917.nef.xmp -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Sep 23 22:33 dse_7919.nef.xmp -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Sep 23 22:33 dse_7920.nef.xmp -rw-r--r-- 1 480 Sep 23 22:25 list davidtg@u17383850:/tmp/PS> for F in *xmp ; do P=`basename $F .xmp` ; P=`echo *$P` ; echo mv -i "$F" "$P.xmp" ; done mv -i dse_7905.nef.xmp 190921_094704_dse_7905.nef.xmp mv -i dse_7906.nef.xmp 190921_094704_dse_7906.nef.xmp mv -i dse_7907.nef.xmp 190921_094713_dse_7907.nef.xmp mv -i dse_7908.nef.xmp 190921_094717_dse_7908.nef.xmp mv -i dse_7910.nef.xmp 190921_094805_dse_7910.nef.xmp mv -i dse_7915.nef.xmp 190921_094831_dse_7915.nef.xmp mv -i dse_7916.nef.xmp 190921_094834_dse_7916.nef.xmp mv -i dse_7917.nef.xmp 190921_094834_dse_7917.nef.xmp mv -i dse_7919.nef.xmp 190921_094836_dse_7919.nef.xmp mv -i dse_7920.nef.xmp 190921_094843_dse_7920.nef.xmp I originally thought I'd use sed to split the pieces, but then I realized you're just prepending chars onto matching bases and it simplified... Ah, well. Next time :-) HANN :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org