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I am said chap, thank you for the mention it is much appreciated!

As for birgirfreyr, if you are looking to get into this line of business I think you will need to understand and respect that...

I've decided it's time I brushed up on my antiquated programming skills and discovered quickly on my travels. I've only just started looking at it but running the command


quickly tutorial
...

One of these days I'll wrap my head round all of this. It's very humbling for someone who has complete mastery of DOS to suddenly find themselves out of their depth i a linux terminal!

Ah, because out of 2778 files the 2 I chose to test it on don't have hyphens! Isn't that typical.


Thanks to everyone who replied you've all been a great help.

I got that thanks, it was attempting to run on the now extracted filenames (title - artist). Having run it on the original files it now extracts title artist but with no hyphen between.

I've got it working but for some weird reason the output has no hyphens at all, not even between the artist and title.

Getting there though.

I tried this and it outputs:

zipinfo: cannot find or open Zoom, Zoom.zip or Zoom.ZIP.

for every zip file in the directory.

I've done that bit now thanks. Now I need to remove the words 'Zoom Karaoke - ' from the beginning of the filenames.

They all start the same, since they are all official copies that is how they come from Zoom. But yes, I need to drop everything up to and including the first hyphen and the space after it.

Ah, got it, but it turns out the tracks are prefixed:

Zoom Karaoke - 2-4-6-8 Motorway - Tom Robinson Band.zip

How would I remove the 'Zoom Karaoke - '?

It simply produces this error:


bash: ./rename.sh: Permission denied

I'm duplicating the directory as we speak. Will report back soon.

I presume I would just place this in a .sh file?

This was the command used to rename them as they are now

i=2743; for f in *; do mv "$f" ./$(printf %04d $i).zip; ((i++)); done

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but thought I'd give it a go.

Some time ago I used a terminal command to automatically rename load of zip files to 0000.zip, 0001.zip etc. Now I need...

Some time ago I used a terminal command to automatically rename load of zip files to 0000.zip, 0001.zip etc. Now I need to change them back.

They are karaoke tracks, contained in each zip are 2...

My laptop (Nvidia graphics) has started doing this recently. Sometimes it loads, others I get a black screen. Loading in safe graphics mode always works though.

I don't see a .conkyrc file or .conky directory in my home folder. Any ideas?

I have done as suggested and with some tinkering the server now works and the xbox can see it. However internet works for about 2 minutes after starting the server then dies. Also in order to play...

The xbox is linked to the pc via cable, works perfectly through windows

I've got a pc with two network cards, one wireless and one ethernet (wlan0 and eth0). I'm trying to setup ushare to stream media to an xbox but automatic DHCP isn't connecting and if I specify an IP...

I see no down side to this! Hehe. I do get what people are saying and partly agree. I have real reservations about certain decisions that have been made but seriously all I can do is sit back and...

Ubuntu is not touting beta level software as production level. Since Natty is in Alpha right now perhaps you mean they are touting beta level software as alpha level?? Why do people seem to feel the...

I'm getting rather fed up with living in a world where the service providers all try to railroad us into using their favoured operating system. Sky should be falling over themselves to make sure we...

As stated in the first post of this thread, done, done and done.