Re: Tag & Rename question....

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks Ant, - I can certainly put perl on there....

Will give it a go later....

:-)

Paul G.


>From: Ant <ant@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Tag & Rename question....
>Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 01:02:57 +0100
>
>On Tuesday 20 May 2003 21:07, Paul Gordon wrote:
> > Hoping someone whose used T&R a bit can help me....
> >
> > I have a sizeable chunk of a library where the format is:
> >
> > <Artist>\<artist - album>       i.e there is a top
level folder for the
> > artist, and underneath that is a folder per album, *but* the
artist name
> > also appears as part of the album folder name....
> >
> > I want to change it so that the folder name exactly matches the
album
>name,
> > i.e. like the following:
> > <Artist>\<album>
>
>Got perl? Do this:
>
>perl -e 'for(`find . -type d`){chomp;$o=$_;if(s/.*-\s*//){rename $o,$_
>unless
>-d $_;};}'
>
>It'll process a whole directory tree, and change <artist - album>
to
><album>
>regardless of the number of spaces in there. If <album> is
non-unique for a
>particular <Artist> directory, it'll leave it alone.
>
>cheers
>
>ant
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