Scripting assistance for batch file rename

[80-watt Hamster]

My script-fu is weak, as in white-belt weak, maybe not even that. I used to dabble in BASH scripting, but that was about 15 years ago and was never anything complex. Anyway, I've got several hundred audio files that have leading "garbage" characters in the filenames. For example:

073 - Artist - Title.mp3 should become
Artist - Title.mp3

The leading characters aren't uniform in format. Spacing, number length and delimiters can vary, so I'd be looking to lop off anything before the first alpha character. This could run in CMD, PowerShell, BASH, or potentially another Linux shell. Ideas, anyone?

 

[80-watt Hamster]

Nobody? Either I'm in the wrong place, or am really good at coming up with difficult questions.

 

[W1zzard]

Use Regex / Powershell to rename files

How does one rename the following files (New => Old): filename__Accelerated_C____Practical_Programming_by_Example.chm -> C Practical Programming by Example.chm

stackoverflow.com

regex101.com to test regular expressions

 

[80-watt Hamster]

Use Regex / Powershell to rename files

How does one rename the following files (New => Old): filename__Accelerated_C____Practical_Programming_by_Example.chm -> C Practical Programming by Example.chm

stackoverflow.com

regex101.com to test regular expressions

Thanks for this lead, W1zz! Time to see where I can go with it.

 

[Aquinus]

so I'd be looking to lop off anything before the first alpha character

Something like this will match alpha characters plus whitespace, followed by an alpha numeric extension at the end of the string.

([a-zA-Z ])+.([a-zA-Z0-9])+$

So if you have something like this:

566-==-*4544.3333.--File Name Goes Here.txt

It would match on this:

File Name Goes Here.txt

You could also use something like this:

^([^a-zA-Z])+

That would match the beginning of such a filename and you could replace it with empty string.

566-==-*4544.3333.--

I could make a more targeted expression with better criteria, but I think this fits what you asked for.