oh the power of python, I try to use it whenever possible since I hate it to be stuck with just java...
a simple program to find all files containing a space at a certain position and to rename it to the correct name needed for my system:
#!/usr/bin/python
import re, os
rxin = '.*bsksa.* _[0-9].txt'
foo = re.compile(rxin)
for fname in os.listdir(os.getcwd()):
allowed_name = re.compile(rxin).match
if allowed_name(fname):
os.rename(fname,fname.replace(' ',''))
or short, find files and replace spaces with nothing. The reg expression just filters the data.
Monday, September 15, 2008
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Python looks very strange when you are not used to it.
My perl script equivalent (sort of):
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# Usage: rename.pl perlexpr [files]
($regexp = shift @ARGV) || die "Usage: rename.pl perlexpr [filenames]\n";
if (!@ARGV) {
@ARGV = < STDIN >;
chomp(@ARGV);
}
foreach $_ (@ARGV) {
$old_name = $_;
eval $regexp;
die $@ if $@;
rename($old_name, $_) unless $old_name eq $_;
}
now this looks even stranger :P
well I used to work so much with perl and this example convince me once more that I stay away from it. I know what it does and how it works, but it just looks so ugly :)
Ugly?? I was thinking exactly the same thing about your python example! :-)
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