Shell command to remove (1) from filename

To compare massive number of files with (1) in file name, with the original files without (1), such as ABCD(1).txt and ABCD.txt, following commands can be used. Beware, they are not steps but commands.

Use bash substring

• Find out all *(1)* files and check whether have original file in same folder.

find . -name "*\(1\)*" | while read line
do
    if test -e "${line/(1)/}"; then
        echo "$line"
    fi
done

Then can clean up them one by one.

• Move them to another directory

• Rename them to be the same as original file in same folder

find . -name "*\(1\)*" | while read line
do
    if test ! -e "${line/(1)/}"; then
        mv "$line" "${line/(1)/}"
    fi
done

• Compare them with original files in same folder

Note: This method only work with the original filename has no (1) string.

Use sed

Following sample script can be used for same task.

#!/bin/bash

find . -name "*" -type f | while read line
do
        dname="`dirname -- \"$line\"`"
        bname="`basename -- \"$line\"`"
        # pattern='s/\(([0-9])\)\./\1/'         # remove "." if match "(1).", \1 == ([0-9])
        # pattern='s/(\([0-9]\))\./\1/'         # remove "(", ")" and "." if match "(1).", \1 == [0-9]
        # pattern='s/([0-9]).//'                # remove "(1)"+any_char
        # pattern='s/[0-9]\.//'                 # remove "(1)."
        # pattern='s/([0-9])\././'              # remove "(1)"
        pattern='s/\s*([0-9])\././'           # remove any_space+"(1)"
        # pattern='s/\s*\././'                  # remove any_space before "."
        # pattern='s/^\./11./'                  # add "11" in front if start with "."
        # pattern='s/^01\./10./'                        # replace starting "01." to "10."
        # pattern='s/^0\([2-9]\)\./1\1./'               # replace starting "01." to "10."
        nname="`echo \"$bname\" | sed -e "$pattern"`"
        # echo "$bname"; echo "$nname"

        if [ "$nname" != "$bname" -a ! -e "$nname" ] ; then
                pushd "$dname"
                echo "$bname"; echo "$nname"
                mv "$bname" "$nname"
                popd
        fi
done

Use vim

• Use following command to get the list of file name

find . -name "*(1).*" -exec echo mv ~{}~ ~{}~ \; > list

• Use vim to edit the file

vi list

• Use lookahead to replace the last (1)

%s/.*\zs(1)//

• Replace ~ to ", then save it

%s/\~/"/g

• Run the script

sh list

References

How to change last occurrence of the string in the line?
Regex lookahead and lookbehind