[ILUG] Strip first three characters from filename

[ollie at eillo.org]

Thanks for the quick reply John - works great!

On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:30:22 +0100, "john Moylan" <john at nuatech.net> wrote:
> sorry, my mistake. The previous example should have read:
> 
> for i in `ls *.mp3`; do mv ${i} `echo ${i} | cut  -d "_" -f2-`; done
> 
> Just a different way of doing things.
> 
> J
> 
> 2008/8/10 john Moylan <john at nuatech.net>
> 
>> for i in `ls *.mp3`; do cut  -d "_" -f2-; done
>>
>> 2008/8/10 <ollie at eillo.org>
>>
>>
>>> I have a ton of mp3 files that I'm currently sorting the id3 tags for.
>>> Each filename starts with the tracknumber followed by an underscore.
>>>
>>> e.g. 01_SONG_NAME_-_ARTIST_NAME_-_ALBUM_NAME.mp3
>>>
>>> Because i have a unique separator between the SONG, ALBUM and BAND name
>>> '_-_'
>>> i can use my audio tag software to populate the ID3 tag fields
>>> appropriately.
>>>
>>> However the track number is separated from the band name by an
> underscore
>>> and the
>>> software isn't flexible enough to tell the difference.
>>>
>>> So i need a shell script that will loop through a directory and
>>> strip the first three characters from each filename.
>>>
>>> Can this be easily done in shell?
>>>
>>> If not i can do it in python but id rather not.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>       Oliver.
>>>
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