rename filenames under a folder, make them shorter

Question

I have a folder contains many .ass files for subtitles of a TV show but the file name is just too long:

House.of.Cards.S01E01.WEBRip.720p.H.264.AAC.2.0-HoC.SOME-OTHER-THINGS.ass House.of.Cards.S01E02.WEBRip.720p.H.264.AAC.2.0-HoC.SOME-OTHER-THINGS.ass House.of.Cards.S01E03.WEBRip.720p.H.264.AAC.2.0-HoC.SOME-OTHER-THINGS.ass

now I just want to change them into shorter form:

House.of.Cards.S01E01.ass
House.of.Cards.S01E02.ass
House.of.Cards.S01E03.ass

is there any simple way to do it? (may be via shell script)

Thanks in advance

Or if your only renaming this kind of file, you can use some tool like http://therenamer.com/ — ColdCat, Sep 04 '13 at 09:16

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 04 '13 at 08:14

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there is a (not so) simple way to do it

for f in *; do mv "$f" "${f//.H.*/}"; done
for f in *; do mv "$f" "$f.ass"; done

answered Sep 04 '13 at 08:14

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yeah, was just about to recommend reading up here, but you found it already it seems: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/string-manipulation.html – JP Lew Sep 04 '13 at 08:17

rename filenames under a folder, make them shorter

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