Renaming Command

[BravoMike]

I have all my music on an external HD and the filename and path of each file is in the format of the following

Ex HD Root / Music / Artist / Album / Artist - Album - Track No - Track Name.mp3

OCD I know

Each Album folder has a file in it named

Artist Name - Album - Abum Cover.jpg

Needless to say, this file is the album cover.

In order to get it working with iTunes in my Windows XP partition I was planning to rename all image files to folder.jpg

If I was to run the following command in the Root / Music folder, would it produce the required results?

mv -rf *.jpg folder.jpg

[parish]

I don't think this would work, not to mention I'm unfamiliar with the -r option to mv.

The following is one way you can accomplish what you want using csh command syntax (bash syntax is likely slightly different):

cd /Music
find . -iname '*.jpg'

Look through the output of this find command and make sure you will only be renaming the files you intend to rename, then use the following commands to do the actual renaming

foreach i ( `find . -iname '*.jpg'` )
mv $i $i:h/folder.jpg
end

When you actually paste it in it will look something like this:

[202]% foreach i ( `find . -iname '*.jpg'` )
foreach? mv $i $i:h/folder.jpg
foreach? end
[203]%


Better yet, substitute cp for mv in the above foreach loop to preserve your original files.

Daniel

[BravoMike]

Thanks for the reply, Parish.

I realised that I stupidly assumed that mv would have a recursive tag much like cp, however after reading the man page I see this is not the case.

Taking your idea of using a for loop, I ended up with the following bash script

IFS=$'\t\n'
for i in $( find . -iname '*.jpg' ) 
do echo "Renaming " $i
cp $i ${i%/*}/folder.jpg
done

I have tested it out on some dummy folders and it works great.

Had to add in that first line because all of my files have spaces in the name, also I took the idea of using cp instead of mv, just incase it all goes FUBAR

Rather than using it as a script I just condensed it into one line, and here it is just in case anyone needs it.

IFS=$'\t\n'; for i in $( find . -iname '*.jpg' ); do echo "Renaming " $i; cp $i ${i%/*}/folder.jpg; done