From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-07-08T04:55:46+09:00
Subject: Re: recursively descend and rename files.

Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezra@yakima-herald.com> wrote:
> Hello list-
>      Could someone please shed some light on this situation for me? I  
> have a huge folder of logos that are named all willy nilly with weird  
> characters and spaces. I need to recursively descend through all of  
> these folders and rename each image so the names only contain [a- 
> z0-9.-]. That part is fine I already have the regex ready to do this.  
> I need to know how to rename these files as I recurse through the  
> directory tree. I have this code so far:
> 
> path = "/Volumes/Users/ez/LOGOS"
> files = []
> require 'find'
> Find.find(path) do |file|
>    files << file if file=~ /.eps$/
> end
> 
> 
> 
> This leaves me with an array of good filenames but they have their  
> complete path as well. What I need help with is for each file, pul  
> just the file name out of the path, do some gsub's on it and then  
> rename it with the output of the gsubs. So after all is said and done  
> the original files will be renamed to be compliant with the regexes I  
> run on each one.
> 
> Can some one please point me in the right direction?

Check out the FileUtils module for the OS stuff like copying and moving,
and File.basename for the path splitting.

martin