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bigoldbulldog
Programmer
This should help. If you have more than one ' - ' then you'll have to figure where the substrings go.
for file in *.mp3
do
mv -- "$file" `echo $file |
sed 's/^\([^ ]*\) - \(.*\).mp3/\2 - \1.c/'`
done Cheers,
ND![[smile]](/data/assets/smilies/smile.gif "[smile] [smile]")
bigoldbulldog@hotmail.com
for file in *.mp3
do
mv -- "$file" `echo $file |
sed 's/^\([^ ]*\) - \(.*\).mp3/\2 - \1.c/'`
done Cheers,
ND
bigoldbulldog@hotmail.com
bigoldbulldog
Programmer
That's
...
sed 's/^\([^ ]*\) - \(.*\).mp3/\2 - \1.mp3/'`
... Cheers,
ND
bigoldbulldog@hotmail.com
...
sed 's/^\([^ ]*\) - \(.*\).mp3/\2 - \1.mp3/'`
... Cheers,
ND
bigoldbulldog@hotmail.com
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