Re: The rename command…

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2008/8/26 Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com>

> 2008/8/25 Ulf Rompe <Ulf.Rompe at icem.com>
>
>> Sorry all for the previous, empty post.
>>
>> On Mo, 2008-08-25 at 16:00 +0200, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>> > Since there is a serious bug in Nautilus, that adds the very
>> > unnecessary text "Link to " to a link created with Ctrl+Shift
>> > +Drag&Drop,
>>
>> I don't think it's a serious bug. I would call it bad design. :-)
>>
>> > rename -v 's/Link to //' *
>> >
>> > However, there doesn't seem to be an option for recursivity built in
>> > to that command. I am not good with scripts, but I am sure there is a
>> > way around that.
>>
>> find . -type l -print0 | xargs -0 rename -v 's/Link to //'
>>
>> [x] ulf
>>
>> Tack så mycket! Har inte testat än, men det ser ut som en vettigare
> lösning än den jag lyckades komma fram till via vild sökning på nätet:
> find . -name "Länk till "* -exec rename -v "s/Länk till //" {} \;
> My guess is that your solution might be a bit faster. IN my solution, both
> find and rename look for the same thing, kind of…
> As everyone can see, I'm a bash beginner but I learn all the time. I think
> that my new knowledge of xargs will make me able to do things that I
> couldn't before! Thanks again!
> J.R.
>
Ooops, sorry for the Swedish line there. For a strange reason I changed to
English after that, I don't really know why… here's the translation for the
first line anyway:

Thanks! haven't tried it yet, but it makes more sense than the solution I
came up with after some wild searching on the web:

find… and so on.

By the way, after some more thinking, I combined your solution with mine and
came up with the following:

find . -type l -exec rename -v "s/Länk till //" {} \;

This way it's all done without piping, at least that is what it looks like.
It would be interesting to hear from you (and others) about advantages and
disadvantages with this line compared to other ideas. The only advantage I
can think of is that it's less to type, but I will make an alias for it
anyway, so that doesn't matter much, more than my alias file will be a few
bytes smaller…

Anf I didn't try my last suggestion yet, maybe it doesn't work… ha ha ha

J.R.
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