Comments on: Batch renaming files in shell http://www.maclovin.de/2009/06/batch-renaming-files-in-shell/ An Apple a day keeps the Windows away Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:05:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: dennis http://www.maclovin.de/2009/06/batch-renaming-files-in-shell/comment-page-1/#comment-505 dennis Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:07:57 +0000 http://www.maclovin.de/?p=300#comment-505 Thanks for this suggestion, PatrickMc. I actually never heard of biterscripting. It looks very flexible, but also very verbose. Being a Unix-guy, I'd rather stick with Cygwin. Well, to be serious I would try to avoid Windows in the first place and then use Cygwin ;-) Thanks for this suggestion, PatrickMc.
I actually never heard of biterscripting. It looks very flexible, but also very verbose. Being a Unix-guy, I’d rather stick with Cygwin. Well, to be serious I would try to avoid Windows in the first place and then use Cygwin ;-)

]]> By: PatrickMc http://www.maclovin.de/2009/06/batch-renaming-files-in-shell/comment-page-1/#comment-504 PatrickMc Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:42:44 +0000 http://www.maclovin.de/?p=300#comment-504 Nice article. In windows, I use biterscripting ( http://www.biterscripting.com ) for renaming. It is a general purpose scripting language, rather easy to learn. For example, to change the extension from mp4 to m4v, the following code snippet can be used. var str list ; lf -n "*.mp4" > $list while ($list "") do var str file, newname ; lex "1" $list > $file ; sal -c -p "^.mp4^" ".mv4" $file > $newname system move $file $newname done Patrick Nice article. In windows, I use biterscripting ( http://www.biterscripting.com ) for renaming. It is a general purpose scripting language, rather easy to learn.

For example, to change the extension from mp4 to m4v, the following code snippet can be used.

var str list ; lf -n “*.mp4″ > $list
while ($list “”)
do
var str file, newname ; lex “1″ $list > $file ; sal -c -p “^.mp4^” “.mv4″ $file > $newname
system move $file $newname
done

Patrick

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