[ubuntu-uk] rsync chgrp problem - advice, please?

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:18:51 +0100, luxxius <luxxius at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Tony Arnold wrote:
> <snip>
>> for i in `find /home/diana/music -group diana` ; do chgrp root $i &&
>> chmod 644 $i; done
>> (should be all on one line, excuse the wrap)
> 
> 
> Tony / Matthew / Robert >>> Many thanks for your quick and very helpful
> replies.
> 
> I've tried Tony's one-liner, which would work a treat with orthodox file
> names.  Sadly, a lot of mine are from CD rips, and contain spaces.  So
> the suggested script gags on the un-escaped spaces.  Rats!
> 
> Looks like I may have to do them by hand after all.
> 
> Thanks ever so much for the ideas, though, as I now know about 300%
> about how to do this than I did a couple of hours ago.  What a great list!

Not the one I originally used, but a good example all the same:

http://tlug.dnho.net/?q=node/198

gives:

#!/bin/sh
for i in ./* ; do
        if [[ `echo "$i" | grep -r '_' | grep -v 'm3u'` ]]
        then
        #       mv "$i" "`echo "$i" | sed 's/_/\ /g' | perl -p -e 's/(\\w+)/\\u\\L$1/g;' | sed 's/Mp3/mp3/g'`";
                echo "`echo "$i" | sed 's/_/\ /g' | perl -p -e 's/(\\w+)/\\u\\L$1/g;' | sed 's/Mp3/mp3/g'`";
        fi
done


The above script will give test output to ensure that this is what you want, to make the changes, do the following:

#!/bin/sh
for i in ./* ; do
        if [[ `echo "$i" | grep -r '_' | grep -v 'm3u'` ]]
        then
               mv "$i" "`echo "$i" | sed 's/_/\ /g' | perl -p -e 's/(\\w+)/\\u\\L$1/g;' | sed 's/Mp3/mp3/g'`";
        #      echo "`echo "$i" | sed 's/_/\ /g' | perl -p -e 's/(\\w+)/\\u\\L$1/g;' | sed 's/Mp3/mp3/g'`";
        fi
done


If you put this into a file called "rename.sh" and chmod +x rename.sh you can then run the script (./rename.sh)

Hope this helps,

Matt

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