Hiyis,

Just thought I'd share a small script that I use to rename my downloaded mp3 files. I like such files to have a consistent naming style - so running this script helps a little with this (tho i still make a manual pass).

It's very simple, and nothing amazing code-wise - but I find it useful :) 

my $dir = './';
opendir(DIR, $dir) || die "Can't open $dir: $!";
my @files = readdir DIR;
closedir DIR;

my $n; # new name for file
foreach $f (@files) {
    $n = lc $f; # convert to lower case
   $n =~ tr/_\{\}\[\]/       /; # get rid of certain brackets
   while ($n =~ /  /) {$n =~ s/  / /g;} # remove double quotes
   $n =~ s/\s*.\s*/./g; # dots should have no white space
   $n =~ s/^\s*\d+\s*//g; # remove starting numbers
   $n =~ s/^\s*\W+\s*//g; # remove starting non-words
   if ($n =~ m/^\s*(.*)\w*$/g) {$n = $1};
   $file_exists = (($n ne lc $f) && (-e $n));
    if ($f ne $n && !$file_exists) {rename $f, $n;}
}

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In reply to renaming multimedia files by prarie dawn

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