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I was cleaning up my mp3 collection and realized I needed to do some file renaming. Some of it was easy, and some of it was a bit more complicated. I tried the Cookbook Example, but it didn't have a preview option (something I needed because I often get regexes wrong on the first try).

It's useful for me, hopefully someone else will find it handy as well.

Note: This was tested on Windows. I haven't run it on a Unix platform yet.

use strict;
&renameFiles( &getArgs() );

# ------------------- SUBROUTINES -------------------
sub printUsage {
   print <<EOF;
   Usage:
      > perl renrx.pl ["<regex>" [<preview>]]

      Where,
      * <regex> the regular expression to use
      * <preview> is 0 to disable preview; anything otherwise
EOF
}

sub getArgs {
   my ($reg, $prompt) = ("", 1);
   if ( @ARGV == 2 ) {
      ($reg, $prompt) = @ARGV;
      unless ( $prompt == 0 ) { $prompt = 1; }
   } elsif ( @ARGV == 1 ) {
      ($reg) = @ARGV;
   } else {
      # unexpected number of args
      &printUsage();
      exit;
   }
   return ($reg, $prompt);
}

sub renameFiles {
   my ($reg, $prompt) = @_;
   my @files = <*>;
   foreach  (@files) {
      my $before = $_;
      eval $reg;
      my $after = $_;
      if ( $before eq $after ) { next; } # nothing to do
      if ( $prompt ) {
         print "$before => $after\n";
         print "Rename? [Yes|No|Always|Cancel] ";
         chomp (my $resp = <STDIN>);
         if ( $resp =~ m/^y/i ) {
            # do nothing
         } elsif ( $resp =~ m/^n/i ) {
            next;
         } elsif ( $resp =~ m/^a/i ) {
            $prompt = 0;
         } elsif ( $resp =~ m/^c/i ) {
            exit;
         } else {
            print "Invalid choice.\n";
            exit;
         }
      } # if prompt
      rename( $before, $after );
   }
}
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As an example, the following swaps the artist name and song titles for me:

Command:

perl renrx "s|(.*?)(\d\d) ([^_]+) _ (.*?)(\.mp3)|$1$2 $4 _ $3$5|"
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Output:

Maybe-01 Winter Wonderland _ Phantom Planet.mp3 => Maybe-01 Phantom Pl
+anet _ Winter Wonderland.mp3
Rename? [Yes|No|Always|Cancel] y
Maybe-02 Maybe this Christmas _ Ron Sexsmith.mp3 => Maybe-02 Ron Sexsm
+ith _ Maybe this Christmas.mp3
Rename? [Yes|No|Always|Cancel] a
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In reply to Renaming Files with Regular Expressions by svsingh

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