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birch

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Registered: 2014-07-12

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[Solved] Thunar Custom Action - Renaming Files

I have a command that I'm trying to get to work. It deletes spaces, hyphens, plusses and underscores from filenames.

Code: rename "s/[-_+ ]//g" *

I've tried using this command by inserting the %f and n% command parameters in different places, but it doesn't work. When I run the command without the parameters then it will rename all files in a folder, and not just the selected files. How can I get it to rename only selected files.

ToZ

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Re: [Solved] Thunar Custom Action - Renaming Files

You need to create a loop so that all of the selected files in %N get processed individually. Something like this works:

for file in %N; do mv "$file" `echo $file | sed -e 's/[_-+ ]//g'`; done

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birch

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Re: [Solved] Thunar Custom Action - Renaming Files

Thank you! I just tested it and it works, but presents a new problem. It deletes the period that separates the file name from the file extension. So it will change 34faw-aajiew_areaf opoa.jpg to 34fawaajiewareafopoajpg

ToZ

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Re: [Solved] Thunar Custom Action - Renaming Files

Sorry, my QA failed me today. Try this one instead:

for file in %N; do mv "$file" `echo $file | sed -e 's/[ _+-]//g'`; done

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birch

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Re: [Solved] Thunar Custom Action - Renaming Files

Thanks, that works perfect!