Renaming with wildcard

Asked Apr 25 '21 at 13:39

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I'm trying to rename a bunch of files, using the rename command, from

Blue - This file is called Blue ok.txt
Red - This file is called Red ok.txt
Orange and Yellow - This file is called Orange and Yellow ok.txt

... into:

Blue.txt
Red.txt
Orange and Yellow.txt

I'm having trouble getting it to understand the wildcard in the middle. I've tried:

rename -f 's/ - This file is called* ok//gi' *.txt

asked Apr 25 '21 at 13:39

beekay

Does this answer your question? Why does my regular expression work in X but not in Y? – ilkkachu Apr 25 '21 at 14:25
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... also How do regular expressions differ from wildcards used to filter files – steeldriver Apr 25 '21 at 14:26
@steeldriver, yep, that's a better one, thanks. – ilkkachu Apr 25 '21 at 14:27
@ilkkachu for some reason it wouldn't let me suggest it as a duplicate (the button was grayed out) – steeldriver Apr 25 '21 at 14:28
Read the linked answers, but in short: the d* ok in your regex means zero-or-more d characters followed by " ok". You want d.* ok, which means d followed by zero-or-more of any character, followed by " ok". – cas Apr 26 '21 at 03:44

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