Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:14:52 -0400 From: David Banning <david+dated+1238555693.f4db0d@skytracker.ca> To: Ramiro Caso <misha_78@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, david+dated+1238356671.fa5de5@skytracker.ca Subject: Re: renaming many Chinese files Message-ID: <49CC44AC.6010401@skytracker.ca> In-Reply-To: <BAY102-W44AE807B7E59EEF75E0ED3E1930@phx.gbl> References: <20090324195751.GA20259@skytracker.ca> <BAY102-W44AE807B7E59EEF75E0ED3E1930@phx.gbl>
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that worked fine. Thanks. > Just a very quick thought (the first that pops into my mind): you could > see which are the western characters that appear in the names, and then > use sed to substitute all non-matching characters with nothing, > something like: > > for i in *.jpg; do b="`echo $i | sed 's/[^CHAR_SET]//g'`"; mv $i $b; done > > (without > forgetting, obviously, to add . to the CHAR_SET, something like: > [^a-zA-Z0-9.]; if you figure out a less clumsy way, please, share!!) > I'm guessing that the initial 'P123' is just an example, or this will > horribly backfire. But I'm really, REALLY, taking a shot in the dark > here... (if you already thought of this, and it just doesn't work, > sorry for the useless pitch) > > > >> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:57:51 -0400 >> To: questions@freebsd.org >> From: david+dated+1238356671.fa5de5@skytracker.ca >> CC: >> Subject: renaming many Chinese files >> >> I have hundreds of jpg images where each image is named P123****.jpg >> where the **** are chinese characters. I can't open the file - it >> has to be renamed before I can open it. Evening if I could open it >> I don't want the Chinese part as the name. >> >> Each file starts with 3 or four western characters and then has 3 or >> four chinese characters, before the western .jpg extension. >> >> I want to to test each filename character by character >> to see if it is western, and then when the first Chinese Character is >> found, have it simply rename the file to the 3 or four western-character >> name + .jpg >> >> I can write most of the script but I don't know how to test for >> western and/or Chinese characters. >> >> I could run a script that would simply rename all the files to >> a number in sequential order but I would rather use the existing >> starting name of the file if possible. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > _________________________________________________________________ > Encontrá el auto de tus sueños en MSN > http://xml.mercadolibre.com.ar/org-img/msn/autos.html_______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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