make simple files names

English Multimedia
#1

Hello,

I’m mking mp3’s from my hole cd collection and I have file names problems.

I didn’t notice the problem before having already ripped many cd’s :-(. Now most of this is corrected (from grip, for example), but I still have many old files.

These files include many diacritics characters, from freeddb and track name, like éàè’, blanks… This makes it very difficult to make a html page, for example or simply copying them to fat32 for sharing

I seek for a simple bash script that only remove all what is not [az], or replace them by “-”? Better rename could be nice, but not necessary. Looks like the krename “transclusion”, but this one only looks at accents, not apostrophes

I have also many folders and subfolders. I’m pretty used to bash, but not with sed :frowning:

thanks

#2

You could feed the filenames through *tr *(see man tr) in something like:

tr 'âáàëéè' 'aaaeee'

but then longer, containing all the characters you want to change.
And that inside a loop that offers the filenames in OFNAME:

   echo "${OFNAME}" | tr 'âáàëéè' 'aaaeee' | read NFNAME
   mv ${OFNAME} ${NFNAME}

Be sure to test if NFNAME does not allready exists because several OFNAMEs could result in the same NFNAME.

HTH

#3

yes, thanks. However thinking of any case is pretty hard. I’m concerned by the notice that tr don’t work with multibytes chars, what about utf8?

does the negation work? something like tr ![a-z] -] made on basename could be what I look for

I look also on some sort of sed -e “s/^a-z]/-/g”)

I yet have to try all this, but I was wondering if somebody didn’t already do the job, this problem being pretty common :slight_smile:

thanks

#4

well option -c…

#5

It is not too difficult to test this. Instead of the *mv *statement you do an *echo *and you can see what a *mv *will do. You can play with it until you are satisfied and then change *echo *to *mv *for the big bang.

Coming back to your original problem. I do not quite see your web-page problem. When you see that in all phases you work with UTF8 it works perfectly within HTML. I have web pages where parts are input via an HTML form. I type there all sorts of diacritics (as I did in my earlier post) and they show as intended (as the above post is rendered as intended).

#6

Pearl Scrit to read the directories, extract the headers and build filename… There couldnt be a better example to show perl’s utility than this one.