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Frank Steinmetzger wrote: |
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> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 07:49:26PM -0600, Dale wrote: |
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>> I ran into a problem. I been downloading a lot of TV shows. I forgot |
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>> to put a sort of important part in the names. This is what I have with |
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>> the full path: |
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>> /data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot.mp4 |
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>> This is what I need it to be: |
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>> /data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Person of Interest - Season 1, |
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>> Episode 1 - Pilot.mp4 |
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>> Basically, I need to add the name of the show to the name of the file. |
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>> They will all be added to the front of the names. They also almost all |
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>> contain spaces, which means some fancy footwork with the \. |
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>> Is there a way to do this? I have room to copy them to another |
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>> directory if needed. I would sort of actually prefer it that way since |
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>> if it messes up, I got the originals at least. |
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>> Sorry I'm not real good at gawk, sed and all those things. I suspect |
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>> those will be used tho. I am familiar with | and grep tho. ;-) |
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>> Thoughts? |
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> I can’t remember right now what graphical environment you use, but for KDE |
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> there is KRename. But if you want it quick and efficient, I suggest |
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> renameutils. You give it a list of files and it opens $EDITOR containing two |
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> columns with the list. The first is the old name, and in the second you can |
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> enter the new name. |
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> It’s basically a mass renamer for the console, powered by your favorite |
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> features of your favorite editor. With the recursive flag -R you can even do |
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> what you want for many dirs at once and then insert the Series name using |
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> search and replace with regular expressions. |
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> But your particular example could be done simply with: |
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> cd "/data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest" |
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> for i in *.mp4; do mv -n "$i" "Person of Interest - $i"; done |
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Oh heck yea. Krename did a wonderful job. It renamed them in place. I |
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tested it on a small directory with just a few files at first. This is |
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cool. I didn't know KDE had this and it wasn't installed either. |
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No grep, gawk or sed in the command line for this? Wow. I thought |
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there would be at least a couple of those in there. lol |
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Thanks for the info. I didn't even think there would be a GUI for |
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this. o_O |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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