Re: Tag & Rename question....

[Ant <ant@xxxxxxx>]

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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