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I have been using the rename command to batch rename files. Up to now, I have had files like:
2010.306.18.08.11.0000.BO.ADM..BHZ.SAC
2010.306.18.08.11.0000.BO.AMM..BHZ.SAC
2010.306.18.08.11.0000.BO.ASI..BHE.SAC
2010.306.18.08.11.0000.BO.ASI..BHZ.SAC
and using rename 2010.306.18.08.11.0000.BO. "" * and rename .. _. * I have reduced them to:
ADM_.BHZ.SAC
AMM_.BHZ.SAC
ASI_.BHE.SAC
ASI_.BHZ.SAC
which is exactly what I want. A bit clumsy, I guess, but it works. The problem occurs now that I have files like:
2010.306.18.06.12.8195.TW.MASB..BHE.SAC
2010.306.18.06.14.7695.TW.CHGB..BHN.SAC
2010.306.18.06.24.4195.TW.NNSB..BHZ.SAC
2010.306.18.06.25.0695.TW.SSLB..BHZ.SAC
which exist in the same folder. I have been trying to get the similar results to above using wildcards in the rename command eg. rename 2010.306.18.*.*.*.*. "" but this appends the first appearance of 2010.306.18.*.*.*.*. to the beginning of all the other files - clearly not what I'm after, such that I get:
2010.306.18.06.12.8195.TW.MASB..BHE.SAC
2010.306.18.06.12.8195.TW.MASB..BHE.SAC2010.306.18.06.14.7695.TW.CHGB..BHN.SAC
2010.306.18.06.12.8195.TW.MASB..BHE.SAC2010.306.18.06.24.4195.TW.NNSB..BHZ.SAC
2010.306.18.06.12.8195.TW.MASB..BHE.SAC2010.306.18.06.25.0695.TW.SSLB..BHZ.SAC
I guess I am not understanding a fairly fundamental principal of wildcards here so, can someone please explain why this doesn't work and what I can do to get the desired result (preferably using rename).
N.B.
To clarify, the output wants to be:
ADM_.BHZ.SAC
AMM_.BHZ.SAC
ASI_.BHE.SAC
ASI_.BHZ.SAC
MASB.BHE.SAC
CHGB.BHN.SAC
NNSB.BHZ.SAC
SSLB.BHZ.SAC
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When you have a number of files named in series (for example, chap1 to chap12) or filenames with common characters (like aegis, aeon, and aerie), you can use wildcards (also called metacharacters) to specify many files at once. These special characters are * (asterisk), ? (question mark), and [ ] (square brackets).
Click the Select all button. Quick tip: Alternatively, you can also use the Ctrl + A keyboard shortcut to select all files. You can press and hold the Ctrl key and then click each file to rename. Or you can choose the first file, press and hold the Shift key, and then click the last file to select a group.
You can try this first to see what commands would be executed
for f in *; do echo mv $f `echo $f | sed 's/2010.*.TW.//'` ; done
If it's what you expect, you can remove echo from the command to execute
for f in *; do mv $f `echo $f | sed 's/2010.*.TW.//'` ; done
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