[Simon]

I have a whole bunch of iTunes files in various folders with a " 1" suffix like this
~/Music/iTunes/.../SomeSong 1.m4a
and I want to get rid of that suffix (they're leftovers from a batch conversion).

There must be an easy way to get this done in the shell, but I'm not a great shell programmer...

I know if you want to add something to a file name it can be done easily in the shell like this

code:

for i in *.m4a; do mv $i "The Prefix"$i; done;

But what if I want to remove part of the file name? Any suggestions how to remove this " 1" from the file names in the shell?

[TETENAL]

[Simon]

Nice!

I'd still like to see a shell script solution though.

[ginoledesma]

This works for bash:

Code:
for i in *.m4a
do
    name=$(echo $i | sed -e "s/ 1.m4a$/.m4a/")
    mv "$i" "The Prefix$name";
done;

Replacing all occurrences of files ending in "1.m4a" with ".m4a" (because " 1" might appear elsewhere as part of the filename). Note you also want to wrap the filenames in quotes for mv, especially as they may contain spaces.

[Simon]

Awesome, thanks!