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Re: I need an automated method of changing file names,

2006-08-30 by Laurent Cerveau

Message posted by Laurent Cerveau <lcerveau@...>:

The a little bit non conventional way : Applescript

The computer geek, non user oriented but totally free and fast method in Terminal

ls -1 *.aiff | awk '{print "mv "$1" "$1}' | sed s/.aiff//2 | sh

To rename all .aiff to .aif

ls -1 *.aiff | awk '{print "mv "$1" "$1}' | sed s/.aiff/.aif/2 | sh

etc...

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Move to quarantaine

This moves the raw source file on disk only. The archive index is not changed automatically, so you still need to run a manual refresh afterward.