How do I rename a bunch of recordings using wildcards?

[ETA_2016]

I'm trying to rename a bunch of recordings, the same way (*Album *.* --> *Albums *.*), without having to do each rename separately.

How can I do that? I can't install mmv or rename (no apt command), and mv doesn't work, so what can I do?

Thanks for any help.

[prl]

You can do it in a shell for loop.

[ETA_2016]

You can do it in a shell for loop.

Could you please provide the full command/instructions.

Thanks

[adoxa]

I believe this will do it:

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for name in *Album\ *; do mv "$name" "${name/Album/Albums}"; done

[prl]

Something like this:

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for fn in *'News '*.*; do
    echo mv "$fn" "${fn/New/Old}"
done

That version prints what would be done:

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mv 20201206 1857 - ABC - ABC News Sunday.eit 20201206 1857 - ABC - ABC Olds Sunday.eit
mv 20201206 1857 - ABC - ABC News Sunday.ts 20201206 1857 - ABC - ABC Olds Sunday.ts
mv 20201206 1857 - ABC - ABC News Sunday.ts.ap 20201206 1857 - ABC - ABC Olds Sunday.ts.ap
mv 20201206 1857 - ABC - ABC News Sunday.ts.cuts 20201206 1857 - ABC - ABC Olds Sunday.ts.cuts
mv 20201206 1857 - ABC - ABC News Sunday.ts.meta 20201206 1857 - ABC - ABC Olds Sunday.ts.meta
mv 20201206 1857 - ABC - ABC News Sunday.ts.sc 20201206 1857 - ABC - ABC Olds Sunday.ts.sc

To make it actually rename the files, change echo mv to mv.

The quoting in the mv command has to be there (the filenames will contain spaces), and has to use double quotes, not single quotes.

[ETA_2016]

I believe this will do it:

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for name in *Album\ *; do mv "$name" "${name/Album/Albums}"; done

Thank you adoxa. That's perfect.

Something like this:

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for fn in *'News '*.*; do
    echo mv "$fn" "${fn/New/Old}"
done

That version prints what would be done:

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mv 20201206 1857 - ABC - ABC News Sunday.eit 20201206 1857 - ABC - ABC Olds Sunday.eit
mv 20201206 1857 - ABC - ABC News Sunday.ts 20201206 1857 - ABC - ABC Olds Sunday.ts
mv 20201206 1857 - ABC - ABC News Sunday.ts.ap 20201206 1857 - ABC - ABC Olds Sunday.ts.ap
mv 20201206 1857 - ABC - ABC News Sunday.ts.cuts 20201206 1857 - ABC - ABC Olds Sunday.ts.cuts
mv 20201206 1857 - ABC - ABC News Sunday.ts.meta 20201206 1857 - ABC - ABC Olds Sunday.ts.meta
mv 20201206 1857 - ABC - ABC News Sunday.ts.sc 20201206 1857 - ABC - ABC Olds Sunday.ts.sc

To make it actually rename the files, change echo mv to mv.

The quoting in the mv command has to be there (the filenames will contain spaces), and has to use double quotes, not single quotes.

Thanks prl.

[ETA_2016]

I've changed the names using putty, but the changes aren't showing up on the T4's list of recordings. I've restarted the GUI and rebooted the T4, neither of which helped.

What's going on, and how can I get the changes showing in the list of the T4's recordings?

[Paul_oz53]

I've changed the names using putty, but the changes aren't showing up on the T4's list of recordings. I've restarted the GUI and rebooted the T4, neither of which helped.

What's going on, and how can I get the changes showing in the list of the T4's recordings?

The filenames displayed in media player are derived from the .meta file. You need to edit each .meta file to amend the displayed names.

[adoxa]

The name in the list comes from the meta file. Assuming Album doesn't occur in the description (or it doesn't matter if it does), try this:

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sed -i "s/Album /Albums /" *Albums\ *.meta