Question

I’ve just came from Windows 8 and having a huge issue right now. I am now on Ubuntu 12.10 I used FileHistory to back up my data to an external hard drive, and now all of my files have been backed up in addition to appending a timestamp in the file name.

I am in need of removing everything between parenthesis that starts off with “(2012_” and ends with “)”.

Can anyone help me with this? Here’s a screenshot of a list of files I’m trying to fix:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2526790/Screenshot%20from%202012-11-30%2021%3A19%3A06.png

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Answer 1

How about this?

rename 's/\s\([^\)]+\)//' *.*

We can thank Larry Wall for that one.