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Daniel Cohen - 09 Oct 2006 14:46 GMT

With Applescript (script provided by Apple) or File Buddy it's easy to
trim a fixed sequence of characters from a bunch of files.

What I am going to need to do is to remove date stamps from a whole
bunch of files. So a fixed number of characters but variable characters,
all numbers. A trim of a specified number of charaacters would be fine.

Are there any (preferably free) scripts or programs to do this?

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Tom Stiller - 09 Oct 2006 15:51 GMT

> With Applescript (script provided by Apple) or File Buddy it's easy to
> trim a fixed sequence of characters from a bunch of files.
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> Are there any (preferably free) scripts or programs to do this?

If you're comfortable with regular expressions, the script below will do
the job.

------------------- cut here ----------------------------------
#!/usr/bin/perl

# Usage: rename perlexpr [files]

($op = shift) || die "Usage: rename perlexpr [filenames]\n";
if(!@ARGV) {
@ARGV = <STDIN>;
chop (@ARGV);
}
for (@ARGV) {
$was = $_;
eval $op;
die $@ if $@;
rename($was, $_) unless $was eq $_;
}
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Gerry - 09 Oct 2006 17:07 GMT

I have an Apple supplied AppleScript that is labeled "Trim n Characters
From Selected Items" You have the option to enter the number of
characters you want to remove, either from the beginning or end of the
file name.

I got all the scripts I use either from the AppleScript web page, or
from earlier OS CDs that had "Extras" which included various scripts.

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ryrtr - 10 Oct 2006 01:20 GMT

i think this will do that : http://petermaurer.de/nasi.php?section=filelist

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Daniel Cohen - 10 Oct 2006 15:59 GMT

Many thanks.

> > With Applescript (script provided by Apple) or File Buddy it's easy to
> > trim a fixed sequence of characters from a bunch of files.
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> i think this will do that : http://petermaurer.de/nasi.php?section=filelist

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trimming file names