Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.

Take a look at rename, Dale.Its usage syntax wasn't obvious to me at first but after using it a few times I got the hang of it.Bill -- Sent from my HP TouchPad which is really braindead when trying not to toppost.  On Nov 30, 2011 5:50 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: Greets,

I ran into a problem.  I been downloading a lot of TV shows.  I forgot 
to put a sort of important part in the names.  This is what I have with 
the full path:

/data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot.mp4

This is what I need it to be:

/data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Person of Interest - Season 1, 
Episode 1 - Pilot.mp4

Basically, I need to add the name of the show to the name of the file.  
They will all be added to the front of the names.  They also almost all 
contain spaces, which means some fancy footwork with the \.

Is there a way to do this?  I have room to copy them to another 
directory if needed.  I would sort of actually prefer it that way since 
if it messes up, I got the originals at least.

Sorry I'm not real good at gawk, sed and all those things.  I suspect 
those will be used tho.  I am familiar with | and grep tho.  ;-)

Thoughts?

Dale

:-)  :-)

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