bash: stripping numeric characters from filenames

[mugstar]

(I just know this will involve regular expressions ... )

I have a collection of mp3's and ogg's, a lot of which take the form 02_name_of_artist_name_of track.ogg. What I want to end up with is a file called name_of_track.ogg.

I know that I can use

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for i in *.ogg; do mv "$i" "${i/_name_of_artist_}"; done

to strip some of the filename out, but I'm messing up when trying to remove the track numbers from the start of more than one file.

Anybody?

[nelz]

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for i in *.ogg; do mv "$i" "${i/[0-9][0-9]_name_of_artist_}"; done

[mugstar]

Aargghhh!! Two seperate ones!

Thanks!

[emyr42]

Shouldn't your code be reading from the ogg file's metadata to find the track name?

[nordle]

02_name_of_artist_name_of track.ogg

But surely the best you can ever hope for with pattern matching is

name_of_artist_name_of track.ogg

Unless you started with something like:

02_name_of_artist__name_of track.ogg