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Capitalize words in a string with sed |
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Thursday Jan 5 1:15:50 2023 |
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I've got a small collection of .avi files and I wanted to capitaliz |
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each word in their names because I find it easier to read |
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"This.Is.An.Avi.File.avi" than "this.is.an.avi.file.avi". Renaming |
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them all by hand is a daunting thing to do. I am sure that there |
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might be some graphical software to do it out there, but I am not |
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keen on desktop applications of any kind (with some exceptions). |
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I found this sed line on the internet that works like a charm: |
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sed -e "s/\b\(.\)/\u\1/g" |
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The only "problem" is that it also capitalizes the extension ".Avi" |
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Too bad! There is probably an easy way to tell sed not to do it, bu |
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I am not an expert in regexes, so I'd better not touch the line. |
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But then basename comes to the rescue since it can trim the extensi |
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of any file allowing you to substitute it for any other. Something |
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like this (silly as it may seem): |
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"$(basename $AVIFILE .Avi).avi" |
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This is of course in a script that makes renaming all my files a |
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blast! |
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UPDATE: I found a better way of renaming the extension as follows: |
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rename 's/\.Avi$/.avi/' |
