Re: convert windows file names

[chuck gelm <chuck@gelm.net>]

James Miller wrote:
<snip>

> But, on to file names. unfortunately, the names for the pieces I'm 
> recording from this station follow Windows long-file-naming conventions. 
> Even worse, the names tend to be quite complex and long. Here are a 
> couple of examples:
> 
> Anton\ Reicha-\ Albert\ Schweitzer\ Quintett\ -\ Wind\ Quintet\ No.9\ 
> in\ D\ major\ Op.91\ No.3-\ Finale-\ Allegretto.mp3
> 
> Patrick\ Cohen\ \&\ Mosaiques\ Quartet\ -\ Quintet\ For\ Piano\ \&\ 
> Strings\ In\ D\ Major\,\ Op.56??5\,\ G411\ -??.\ Andante\ Come\ Prima.mp3
> 
> Feeding those names to cat so I can join the movements into a single 
> file is going to be a major pain in the wazoo, as they say down at 
> symphony hall. What I was hoping to find is a script that would 
> automatically convert all the wierd characters into more standard Unix 
> file-naming characters. But so far I've come up empty-handed. Can anyone 
> point me to some utility that might do what I need?
> 
> As a last resort, I might try to write my own script. I'm not too hot on 
> doing that though, since I'm at an extremely rudimentary level when it 
> comes to script writing. If it comes to that, could someone maybe help 
> me get started by giving an example for a script that would do the 
> renaming I want? I'd like to retain the bulk of the information, though 
> I don't mind truncating words at, say 5 letters. I suppose the main 
> thing would be replaing all the spaces and/or punctuation with dashes 
> and/or underscores.
> 
> Thanks, Jam
> es

man rename
...
rename " " "_" * # over and over again. ;-)

HTH, Chuck

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