19 May 2014

SAP/Hybris to resell Adobe Marketing Cloud

SAP/Hybris e-commerce will be reselling Adobe Marketing Cloud with the Hybris e-commerce system.
Digital marketing is crucial for online shops. Being able to resell these will allow SAP/Hybris to sell a total solution to their customers.
Adobe Marketing Cloud is a platform that integrates multiple marketing products and thus adds a host of features to an e-commerce solution. The products typically integrate web, social and mobile interactions

  • Search, navigation and targeting
    • A/B and multivariant testing
  • Analytics
    • web, social, mobile
    • campaigns
    • integrate with offline sources
  • Cross channel campaigns
  • Social media interaction
    • manage content accross social networks
    • listen and respond
  • ...

1 May 2014

Unix: recursively change file suffixes

Task

I want to move all files under a folder with names like
The Scabs\Royalty In Exile (2007 Re-Issue)\01 Crime Wave 1.m4a
to
The Scabs\Royalty In Exile (2007 Re-Issue)\01 Crime Wave.m4a
 
Reason: I have transferred my iTunes library from apple lossless encoding (ALAC) to AAC fromat, so Windows Media player can read them as well. The AAC files in iTunes have the same suffix (because AAC and apple lossless are both MP4 with a different codec). So for the new AAC file, iTunes adds ablank and an ordinal number to the file basename and appends the same m4a suffix.
I now want to replace the original ALAC files with AAC

Steps

  1. I did not find a decent windows command and did not want to learn Windows powershell so I installed Cygwin
  2. Run:
 find . -name \*\ 1.m4a -execdir sh -c 'mv -f "$1"  "${1% 1.m4a}.m4a"' _ {} \;


 Explanations:
  • -execdir: in contrast with the POSIX -exec option, execdir executes in the directory where the file is found and substitutes the unqualified filename
  • We pass the find filename placeholder {} to the shell the be able to use bash shell variables $1, which allow operations like removing a suffix using the ${1%suffix} construct
  • The behaviour of the sh -c (execute a single shell command) with respect to the first parameter ($0, normally the script name), is somewhat unreliable, so we pass in a dummy placeholder "_" for $0 and pass the find parameter {} to $1
Excellent resource on using find