Make sure there are no other files except the ones you want to rename. Run Ranger and navigate to the directory that has the files you wish to rename.
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You can install it as a Vim plugin or just download the. But if you're already familiar with Vim it should be a simple task! It uses Vim keybindings for navigation and such, so if you're not familiar with vim it could get confusing/difficult. I personally enjoy using ranger for these type of things. gif are matched, and all replaced with just. So the dot, the final digits, and the suffix. $ anchors the match to the end of the filename.Here's what the regular expression \.\d+\.gif$ does: gif files in the current directory that would be pointlessly matched by *. Still, you might choose to do so, if you have many non. gif suffix in the regular expression so you don't have to filter for it in the filenames you pass to rename. Remember that -n just shows you what will be done, and you must then remove it to actually rename files.
gif files in the current directory are named according to your description and need to be renamed, you can use: rename -n 's/\.\d+\.gif$/\.gif/' * If you want to use a simpler rename command, and you know all the. This is to say that the solution resembles the problem.
I've chosen this approach-among many possible approaches-because the command expresses precisely the naming scheme that you wish to operate on. It's possible to write a shorter rename command that ought to work. This helps avoid renaming files you don't want to rename. If the file does not begin with the necessary pattern, then there is no match. The backslash is necessary because when a dot appears in a regular expression it otherwise matches any single character. The effect is to ensure those characters are present just before the part we will actually replace. These are the characters we want to keep, after all, not the ones we want to replace. \K forgets the preceding matched characters.I suggest this, though I'll show an alternative below: rename -n 's/^\d matches a sequence of exactly eight digits. You might want to use mv -i to protect against this.The rename command (you can also run it as file-rename) is well-suited to this task. Then the first file will get clobbered when the second one is renamed. Then they will both be renamed to A Star is Born.mp4 Note that, if you have A Star is Born-dQw4w9WgXcQ.mp4 Is a relatively recent addition to Bash YMMV.) Given the part about needing a space after the colon for negative numbers, you can do this: #!/bin/bashīy first doing echo mv - "$f" "$.mp4",Īnd then taking out the echo when the dry run produces acceptable results. Note that a negative offset must be separated from the colon by at least one space toĪvoid being confused with the :- expansion. The expansion is the characters between offset and that result. To a number less than zero, it is interpreted as an offset in characters from the end of the value of parameter rather than a number of characters, and If offset evaluates to a number less than zero, the value is used as an offset in characters from the end of the value of parameter. length and offset are arithmetic expressions (see ARITHMETIC EVALUATION ). Of the value of parameter starting at the character specified by offset and extending to the end of the value. If length is omitted, expands to the substring Indexed array subscripted by or *, or an associative array name, the results differ as described below. Expands to up to length characters of the value of parameter starting at the character specified by offset. So you could use bash parameter expansion to do this: One way to think of this is you want to remove the last 16 characters including extension,
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