Looking for a script please (I think)

[Szekeres Istvan]

Hello,

> Can anybody suggest a terminal script (or any other way) to do the
> following please?
> 
> I have about 500 mp3 music files in a single directory which are
> currently named as eg:
> 
> "Supremes - Baby Love.mp3" etc, etc
> 
> How can I reverse the naming convention to say;
> 
> "Baby Love - Supremes.mp3" and for every other file as well

sudo apt-get install mmv

mmv -n '* - *.mp3' '#2 - #1.mp3'

This does not do it just writes what it would do. Remove the "-n" from
the command to actually perform the renames.

Beware: if the file name contains more than one "-", the command may not
do the right thing.


Regards,
Pistahh