I am trying to see if I can use a regular expression to rename a long list of files in a directory.
That is, the current file name is in the format below:
filename_[2013_05_30].mp4
And I'd like to rename it to the following format:
[2013_05_30]_filename.mp4
I am using Linux (Ubuntu) and can use either shell script or php.
Thanks!
Backup your files before.
Test with this line:
ls *].mp4 | sed 's/^\(.*\)_\(\[[0-9_]*]\)\.mp4$/mv & \2_\1.mp4/'
And when you are sure, add | sh:
ls *].mp4 | sed 's/^\(.*\)_\(\[[0-9_]*]\)\.mp4$/mv & \2_\1.mp4/' | sh
here are a couple of different ways you can accomplish renaming files in a linux shell script(including regex) from unix stackexchange: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/7161/copy-rename-multiple-files-using-regular-expression-shell-script
I hope this helps!