I am modifying a simple BASH script to remove numbers and hyphens from the start of my MP3 files. The aim is to rename files such as:

• 11 Song 1.mp3


• 1-1-Song 2.mp3


• 11-1 Song 3.mp3

to:

• Song 1.mp3


• Song 2.mp3


• Song 3.mp3

I have this script which works for all the files in the current directory

$ for f in [0-9]*; do mv "$f" "`echo $f | sed 's/^[0-9]*W*//'`"; done

and have modified it to look for all files inside subfolders:

#!/bin/bash



dir=''



IFS='

'

for f in $(find $dir * -type f) ; do

  mv "$f" "`echo $f | sed 's/^[0-9]*W*//'`"; 

done

The problem is that the $f value returns the subfolder and the filename and the mv line looks for files beginning with [0-9], therefore any files within a subfolder are not being renamed.

E.g. The file mp3/1-1 Song 1.mp3 begins mp3/, does not start with a numeric so it's not renamed.

Is there a way I can read the directory and file values into separate variables or is there a better way of doing this?

Thanks